Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pages concern themselves with ordinary women, and women whose skin happens not to be white. An article that appeared in the New York Times took umbrage at beauticians who lack the know-how to make up Negro women properly. The Oakland (Calif.) Tribune gives just as much space to Negro social functions as to white. "We don't make a crusade of this," says Executive Editor Paul Minolas. "But a major proportion of our community is Negro, and we consider it proper to include news about them...
...Sleep. A few students complain that the computer is too inflexible a taskmaster. Asked in a programmed geography course how she would use a vacant lot in downtown Chicago, Irvine Drama Student Tana Shattuck proposed a new musical theater for the space. "The computer answered, 'You need more sleep,' " she recalls. "But I wish I could have talked with it about my idea. It was programmed for a certain thing...
Died. Dr. Hein von Diringshofen, 67, German pioneer in aviation and space medicine, who in the early 1930s was the first to study the effects of high gravity forces and weightlessness on the human body, frequently used himself as a guinea pig in hell-diving Stukas and free-fall parachute jumps, in 1934 constructed the first experimental human centrifuge, predecessor of the ones now used in training astronauts, later served as the Luftwaffe's chief medical officer in World War II; of cancer; in Frankfurt, Germany...
...comprising families earning as little as $7,000 a year. Levitt keeps the prices low by clustering the houses on tiny lots around common courtyards and greens, thus cutting the cost of roads and utilities. That also enables him to leave 75% of the land open for parks, play space and a pool...
...using SIAs, says the Air Force, it will be able to eliminate 10 lbs. to 500 lbs. from from the weight of aircraft and space space vehicles. Built-in SIAs will also eventually eliminate the conspicuous whip antennas on military radios and their civilian counterparts. And when the mini-antennas are mass-produced, Turner says, manufacturers will be able to build build them inside TV sets at a cost of only $2 or $3 apiece, eliminating familiar "rabbit ears" and costly, unesthetic roof antennas...