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...Angeles, the National Bureau o Standards' Institute for Numerical Analysis started operating a new electronic calculator which in a mere four hours can solve 150 simultaneous algebraic equations nvolving 4,000,000 arithmetic operations. It can also perform 1,000,000 additions a minute and even make a stab at translating foreign languages (Present vocaulary: 200 words). If SWAC (for Standards Western Automatic Computer) had been around during World War II, hundreds of women calculating-machine operators would have been saved the work ot more than a year compiling rocket-nring tables; SWAC, which needs no sleep...
...Stairs in a Hurry. If a radio dramatist likes music behind his words, Crosby found, one piece he can get is Background-Nostalgic-Tender into ye Rude Awakening. "Ye Rude Awakening, in this case, is simply a sad chord of a sort known in the trade as a stab . . . Not all stabs are bad news, though. WOR can also provide you with a hopeful stab called Things Are Looking...
Nearly 500 people a day swarmed through the exhibition, which was already turning out to be the most popular in Gump's 91-year history. The first pictures to go were an 18th Century engraving of two cupids making a prim stab at golf, and four Victorian prints celebrating croquet, bathing, archery and rowing. Beamed Impresario Gump: "We've taken sporting art out of the box seats and moved it into the bleachers...
...Replied McCormick: "I did not know there was such a place before I landed here," thus convicted himself of failing to read his own newspaper"; the Trib's Delhi correspondent, Percy Wood, has filed full and accurate accounts of the dispute. Then McCormick made a tentative stab: "That is where the rugs come from...
...alternatives offered, according to Doane, are 1) to make a stab at broadcasting within FCC requirements, 2) to wait for the April hearings, 3) to hope for an extension, or 4) to become a commercial station, requiring an impossible outlay of money...