Word: types
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...telecasts. "This is Apollo 8 coming to you live from the moon," reported Borman, focusing the TV camera on the lunar surface drifting by below. "The moon is a different thing to each of us," said Borman. "My own impression is that it's a vast, lonely, forbidding-type existence-great expanse of nothing that looks rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. It certainly would not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work...
...Gajdusek brought back parts of kuru victims' brains. He injected some of the material into chimpanzees, and waited-for two years. Then the chimps began to show the wobbly gait, slavering and eye-crossing that mark the human disease. When they died, their brains showed essentially the same type of damage as those of human kuru victims...
...cities and about 81% of the U.S. TV households. As for programming, the fee-vee system would not be allowed to bid for TV fare that is now available free. Pay operators, for ex ample, could not in most cases telecast movies more than two years old; or series-type shows with continuing casts; or the latest of any sports event that had been telecast in the past two years. That rule would bar pay TV from scheduling such potentially profitable events as the World Series or the Super Bowl-or most sports, for that matter. A possible exception: home...
Four years ago, Minneapolis-based Control Data Corp. brought out its model 6600 computer, the largest machine of its type in the world. Pride soon turned to problems as debugging took longer than expected, and the company began losing money. To make matters worse, Thomas Watson's IBM an nounced that it would bring out its own supercomputer, the 360/91. As a result, many potential purchasers held off buying the multimillion-dollar 6600 machine, and Control Data lost as many as 50 sales. When IBM was slow in producing the 360/91, and then turned out only a few before...
...undertake the type of changes that COWI and Ethos seek would expose the administration to criticism from many of its students and alumnae. Only a firm commitment to change would permit Miss Adams and her subordinates to disregard the criticism. The past history of this Wellesley administration gives little reason to expect that such a commitment will be forthcoming