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Sadeh feels sure that by January he should be able to detect an apparent speedup in the pulsar clock when compared with its rate this month-a clear indication that earth time has slowed by the same amount. If Einstein was right, that observed slowdown will total about 1/ 100th of a second per year. "If our measurements are accurate and we don't get this result," says Hoffmann, "then we scientists-and the Einstein theory-are in trouble...
...strong revival of demand" would be led by a burst of spending for factories and durable goods. It wasn't. Spotty profits kept businessmen cautious about expansion. Their borrowing served partly to pay off old loans and replenish coffers depleted by the 1966 money squeeze and the spring speedup in corporate tax collections; most of all, it reflected wide expectation that the Reserve Board might tighten up on credit or that the Government would pre-empt borrowable funds. Auto sales dropped to about 8,400,000, 7% below their 1966 level. "Mystified businessmen are still waiting for the frantic...
Civil rights experts maintain that the Negro protests about promotions indicate a speedup in their desire for "upward mobility." Up to now, most well-positioned Negroes have been inclined to accept what they have without much complaint. Another reason that complaints have been slow in accumulating is that promotional discrimination is more difficult to spot than discrimination in hiring practices. "Supervisors can, in subtle ways, throw blocks at a Negro," says Raymond Scannell, a white member of the Chicago Human Rights Commission. One of the blocks, complain Negroes, is lily-white upgrading instead of the old lily-white hiring practices...
...facts were more outrageous than those surrounding last year's demonstrations in Grenada, Miss. There Clayton himself had previously ordered a speedup in the local schools' desegregation, but when Negro children attempted to enter the schools, they were savagely beaten. Judge Clayton bluntly ordered the police to protect the children henceforth and sentenced Strong-arm Constable Grady Carroll to four months for contempt of court. Said one of the lawyers in the courtroom: "You should have seen Carroll's face. The man was just astounded-a Mississippi judge doing this to a Mississippi law officer...
...Habitat, a twelve-story Montreal housing complex built of prefabricated concrete apartments piled up like children's blocks. The method promises to cut construction time on Zachry's $10 million, 445-room hotel from a normal twelve months to eight. And only by such a speedup could the hotel be completed in time for the April opening of San Antonio's HemisFair '68, of which Zachry is chairman. Though he estimates that so far the technique itself has cost about as much as conventional construction, the 33% faster schedule will not only save Zachry a bundle...