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After a field is found, bacteria prove pesky saboteurs. The drilling mud that oilmen force down the well often contains starch, tannin and other things that bacteria love to work on. So the mud is apt to go sour and spoil like milk left out of the refrigerator. Dr. Beerstecher's advice: disinfectants to keep the mud sweet and efficient...
Scoops & Swipes. Any area in the Statler Hotel (S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. headquarters) big enough for four men rang out in close harmony. Young and old, starch-shirted and sport-shirted, coated and uncoated, they harmonized. They bobbed and ducked in unison, cupped their ears, blew pitch pipes, rolled their eyes, leaned on each other's shoulders, swayed and rose on their toes. As elevators stopped at quiet floors and the doors opened, Carolina Moon or Bidin' My Time blasted down the hall. From behind closed doors and in the men's roona bits and pieces of When You Wore...
...firmly declined, suggested that growers cut production. But as prices fell and pressure mounted, Benson yielded. Last week he announced that the Department will 1) buy a limited amount of potatoes for school lunch and welfare use, 2) pay a subsidy of 35? a hundredweight to divert potatoes into starch and flour production, and 3) join producers in potato-sales-promotion...
Ambulance convoys rolled from Hanoi's military airfield to the French army's De Lanessan Hospital. From their blood-smeared stretchers and crisp, starch-white beds, the wounded told the hour-by-hour story of the battle for Dienbienphu. This is how it went...
...experiment thought it was an auspicious start. With a vocabulary of only 250 words, the machine was able to translate sentences dealing with politics, law, mathematics, chemistry, metallurgy, communications and military affairs. Samples: "Magnitude of angle is determined by the relation of length of arc to radius." "Starch is produced by mechanical methods from potatoes," "A military court sentenced a sergeant to deprival of civil rights." To translate clearly, the machine had to have some simple translation rules (i.e., how to choose one of several meanings) impressed on its "memory" apparatus. And Russian letters had to be converted to their...