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...Brookline is a psych-out course," he explained. "I think that people tended to get discouraged and when that happens you tend to balloon. The rough is as high as a cornfield. If you miss the green a little bit it's like your ball is in an SOS...
...president, Raymond J. Noorda, proved unable to market successfully computers that contained a highly sophisticated "silicon on sapphire" (SOS) semiconductor chip. The chip, designed by G.A., dramatically reduced the size of the machines, but Rockwell International, which produced five prototype computers for G. A., could not make them standard for regular production. Sales slumped, and by the end of calendar 1974 the company was running at a loss. Noorda persuaded Goshorn to resume active direction of G.A. at year's end, when Goshorn's wife finally left him. This time Goshorn brought back his old partner, Burt Yale...
...mountain. Snow fell for about an hour and I tried to light a fire under a bridge, but it didn't catch solid enough. A cowboy picked me up and left me at some cowboy exit: I was alone for too long. I scratched out an SOS sign, and after a few trucks ground by, a gold Cadillac slowed down but wouldn't let me near until I explained the sign. I guess I looked desperate, so they let me in a couple that was going straight to Chicago I didn't learn that the driver had been speeding...
...there are enough birds for some 208,333 pies, a welcome alternative to the Army's traditional SOS cuisine...
...Chicago White sos. Tuscoss...