Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today's youngsters, who have watched manned space ships blast off on TV and may never even have ridden in a train, the tracks are losing thier magic. Lionel, which has absorbed A.C. Gilbert's American Flyer this year stopped stopped making trains and is selling off its inventory. Sears Roebuck's current Christmas catalogue devotes tow pages to model trains-but it takes nine pages to describe slot-car racing sets, which provide an element of competition that the trains never had, and have replaced them as the Christmas present that boys want most...
...Space to Spare. An hour later, Washkansky regained consciousness and tried to talk. So carefully isolated from possible infection that even his wife Ann was persuaded not to visit him for four days, he showed improvement day by day. After 36 hours he complained of hunger and ate a typical hospital meal, including a soft-boiled egg. As a further guard against infection, the doctors dosed him with antibiotics. His donated heart, healthy and compact, jumped around somewhat uneasily in the cavity left by his own enlarged heart, but this space would soon shrink naturally. The heart gradually slowed...
...committee did not recommend any new computer purchases, concluding that the existing facilities were inadequately utilized now. But if Harvard has enough computers, its computers and their operators seem not to have enough space. Already the Computer Center is splintered off into several separate locations in Cambridge and one in Boston proper...
Terrace Club has voted to hold "open Bicker." As long as there is space, anyone who wants can join. Campus Club also voted to open its books in February, but its graduate board, which effectively runs the club, would not allow it. Thomas K. Babington, president of Campus, made the announcement last week: "The board is not amenable to the idea of non-selectivity for a mere segment of the street. They will support this club in maintaining the principle of selectivity." As a result, 11 members have said they will resign in protest...
Schools that subscribe to 54 (Stanford School Scheduling System) must first catalogue their resources-faculty, students, space, the curriculum to be offered: Then students, with the aid of their advisers, prepare lists of courses in which they would like to be enrolled with preferences and acceptable substitutes. The data are translated into computer language, coded, and punched onto IBM cards, then fed into the computer, which takes minutes to print out a master schedule-student schedules, teacher schedules, room-use schedules -a complete catalogue of who is to teach what, when, where and to whom...