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The varsity hockey team showed the Brown squad Saturday night how to look alternately like a group of strangers playing together for the first time and a polished, precision unit. All in all, the Crimson didn't quite outshine the men from Providence as much as its 6-1 victory...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Hockey Varsity, Freshman Defeat Brown in Romps | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

A Piece of Ice. For all its scientific, precision-tooled marvels, the Nautilus sometimes developed quirks that only homely ingenuity could resolve. A few months before the '58 transpolar run, a leak "no larger than a human hair" developed in the steam-condenser system. An agonizing search by experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polar Saga | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Later, while teaching at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus in Germany, another childhood influence returned to shape the major part of Feininger's art: it was his passion for American precision, as expressed in Manhattan's illimitable grid of straight streets, its now-vanished els, old New York Central...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: EXACT FANTASIST | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

New Customers. The growth has been stimulated by the opening of new markets. The first transistors replaced vacuum tubes in consumer devices-hearing aids, portable radios, etc. Now transistors and other semiconductor cousins are manufactured with such precision and close tolerances that a new generation of computers is being designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Transistor Transition | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Williams' outdoor hockey rink froze in time for Saturday night's game with the Crimson, but the varsity's forwards turned the heat on Eph goalie Dick Alford and skated to a 9-2 victory. Dick Fischer and Dave Vietze contributed two goals each and Bud Higgenbottom scored once for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Depth Indicated As Sextet Wins At Williams, 9-2 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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