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CHUL has had a propensity over the years for making bizarre decisions. Last year they reset the sex ratio at Radcliffe, pulling that odd male proportion 1.18 out of thin air. Administrators didn't know where it came from; they eventually established a 1.3-to-1 ratio...
...itself." Conceding that he faced an "almost unmanageable" problem in trying to rejigger the judgment, Christensen first plaintively requested the disputants to appeal to a higher court. But by week's end he had apparently recovered some of his old self-confidence and announced that he would "promptly" reset the damages himself...
...embroider blouses and monogram pockets as well as baste, hem and stitch once "impossible" materials like leather and stretchable knits. In addition to all this, Singer's expensive Touch & Sew model ($439.95) has solid-state speed control enabling it to breeze through varying thicknesses of fabric without being reset. Today, however, many inexpensive machines (about $60) offer zigzag, hemming and stretch stitches plus an extra foot for buttonholes. Thus most home seamstresses buy the cheaper models and spend their money on fabrics, which can be expensive...
...major nuisance to the National Bureau of Standards-which watches over the national time standard with its cesium clocks at Boulder, Colo.-and other institutions and laboratories that operate atomic timepieces. To keep these clocks in step with the earth's less-than-regular rotation, they must be reset periodically by a small and painstakingly calculated amount. Because the corrections are done independently and at different times, one lab's atomic clock may not read the same as another...
...should eliminate such discrepancies. The International Time Bureau in Paris will now simply issue a directive, probably once a year beginning in 1972, based on worldwide astronomical observations of the earth's rate of rotation. If the accumulated slowdown requires it, the bureau will advise participating countries to reset their clocks by the addition of a second (or subtraction of a second if the earth's rotation should speed up). Thus atomic clocks in all parts of the world should always be ticking off the same seconds. Why wasn't the leap second created sooner? Explains James...