Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thin on Research? Thus, the blackout may have proved a timely warning. "Think what one Russian with a pair of pliers could do," mused Northern Ontario Natural Gas Co. Chairman C. Spencer Clark. To others, it was a reminder that bigger systems may invite bigger blackouts, unless they are made more reliable. The suspicion among many was that the utilities, in their increasing reliance on pools to meet the ever-rising U.S. demand for power?it has doubled in every recent decade?have cut themselves thin on research and development that might have prevented last week's debacle...
...platoon of paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne cautiously threaded their way through an apparently deserted V.C. camp only 30 miles north east of Saigon. It contained freshly dug fortifications, bamboo picnic tables, even a bathing hole. The trooper on "point," leading the way, spotted a pair of black pajamas drying on a tree, went over to pull them down. Precisely at the moment he touched them, four concealed Communist machine guns opened fire...
Computers have been used infrequently in the past to pair up dates for specific dances. But Match's punch-card cupid has far larger horizons, deals in wide areas and adapts to any occasion. Founders Vaughn Morrill and Jeff Tarr launched their enterprise last February on a shoestring budget of $1,250 (Tarr won $500 of it on Password, the TV quiz program). They worked out a questionnaire that would both describe the writer and his "ideal mate," then programmed an IBM 1401 computer to pair them...
...paper, she wanted to meet him in the flesh. When he finally stood face to face with her, he recalls: "I didn't know whether to crowbar her into a cab, or put a saddle on her and ride her home." This fall the computer was reprogrammed to pair off ideals...
...ruins of a tumbled-down medieval castle in Hungary, a group of explorers this fall unearthed a 500-year-old pair of shoes. Radio Budapest remarked sardonically that the shoes were in better shape than most of the footwear produced in present-day Hungary. That is not as funny as it might seem. The problem of shoddy goods, long the bane of Communist nations, is seriously hampering new efforts to increase trade with the West. Last week, in a drive to upgrade the quality of industrial products, East Germany sent 20,000 faithful party stalwarts across the country to inspect...