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...track meets are moving outdoors now. This week Hayes will run his first 100 of the spring at the Florida A.A.U. Invitational at Miami. Hayes's Coach Dick Hill has his star practicing starts every afternoon, blasting out of the blocks time after time, fighting to pare a tiny fraction of a second off the time it takes him to get in motion. "It's a matter of reflexes," says Hill. "It takes a runner 1/100th to one-tenth of a second to react to the starter's gun. The idea is to get Bob to react...
...Congressmen to ask whether there was still any real need to conduct the Apollo moon shot as a cash-eating crash venture (see SCIENCE). And further slashes may be in prospect. The subcommittee, reconsidering its vote, wound up in a 4 to 4 deadlock on a later move to pare the appropriation to a bare-bones $4.2 billion. The measure now goes before the full committee, where Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, the chairman, aims to cut out as much...
...funds will be cut off as soon as the program ceases to be a race against the Russians. Even before the President made his offer to the Russians, even before NASA spokesmen began to echo the boss and say that cooperation is a good thing, Congress had begun to pare NASA's budget request ($5.7 billion for fiscal 1964). Now deeper cuts are likely. Says one high NASA official: "At the moment, our whole funding operation is in limbo...
...advice of an army of research specialists, cars continue to be christened pretty much on a hit-or-miss basis. "We call in the advertising agency," explains one insider. "They come up with a list of suggested names. They go out and survey them, then report back. We pare the list down and take it to our top executive. He doesn't like any of them. Next morning he says, 'I got a great idea while I was taking a bath last night-let's call it the Zot.' Great idea...
...passenger cars. By taking such measures, Beeching hopes to save as much as $412 million annually and eliminate much of the Railways' deficit by 1970. But with Britain already plagued by rising unemployment, there will be labor pains if his ideas are adopted: he wants to pare at least 70,000 workers from the railways' 475,000-man work force...