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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last social year, the Frankses accepted 260 invitations to all sorts of Washington parties, entertained some 5,000 at their Embassy. In a single typical week last autumn, they had 354 guests at luncheons, dinners and cocktails, attended nine functions outside-ranging the social scale from an Indian Embassy dinner to a reception honoring the unification of British & American screw-thread standards...
...General of the Air Force "Hap" Arnold, grounded at Sonoma, Calif, since his retirement in 1946, made one more break with his past. To the local city fathers he presented his collection of model airplanes (more than 65 exact scale models, covering every phase of aviation history, with wingspreads ranging up to 4 ft ). For one thing, they were cluttering up the house, he explained...
...Somogyi's conclusion: "The scale is the judge: if the body weight rises, the fat ration must be cut ... Any diabetic whose weight is above the ideal level is definitely mismanaged...
Last week 600 scientists-from mathematicians to sociologists-gathered at Harvard to admire the latest of the great machines (large-scale computers) that eat their way through oceans of figures like whales grazing on plankton. At the invitation of Professor Howard H. Aiken, director of Harvard's Computation Laboratory, the scientists arrived full of problems. Said Dr. Aiken: "We've built the machines. Now let's start using them...
...branch of technology lacks problems for the computers.-Physicists, chemists, aircraft de signers had plenty of them to offer. So did psychologists and physiologists. Even sociologists wanted to use the machines, though they did not quite know how to go about it. All the scientists agreed that the large-scale calculators would encourage them to tackle many problems from which they had been scared away by computation difficulties...