Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the stringers are unexpected types-for example, Dolly Connelly of Bellingham, Wash., a housewife who bakes very good oatmeal-walnut yeast bread, and who is also a freelance journalist who covers her area of the Northwest U.S. with a bright and knowing touch. Most of the part-time correspondents, however, are full-time professional journalists who hold positions of importance in the areas they cover...
...both business and government, a whole new electronic technology is fast developing that can store, catalogue and recall facts and figures in a pushbutton flash. Among the more sophisticated "information-retrieval" systems, Stromberg-Carlson has produced its 4020, Eastman Kodak its Recordak Miracode, RCA its 3488 and IBM its Walnut, which is used by the Central Intelligence Agency. Last week California's Ampex Corp. introduced the latest retrieval machine, a completely automated microfiling system that allows the searcher to edit his material as he selects...
Privacy & Chats. Builder Cortese (rhymes with daisy) specializes in retirement housing. When he was cranking up for his third retirement community-at Walnut Creek in the San Francisco Bay area-he decided to give an architect a crack at it. The result has made $250 million Walnut Creek, now abuilding, one of the most talked-about developments...
Callister delivered it. Walnut Creek's roofs lift the eye, its patios are big enough to let the sun in, instead of being the penumbral little fakes so beloved of corner-cutting contractors. And there is no scamping of the invisible details. Air-conditioning ducts are oversized to eliminate duct noise, water pipes are oversized to eliminate water moaning, walls and ceilings are fully insulated, and almost every partition is a floor-to-ceiling storage wall. Doorways are 36 in. wide to permit easy passage of wheelchairs, wall plugs are 2 ft. off the floor to minimize stooping, light...
...fine." She reads 1,800 words a minute, will go to Radcliffe on a scholarship. > Dale Gieringer of Cincinnati is towering physically (6 ft. 3 in., 190 lbs.) and intellectually (he tops his class of 289). "A youngster with a brain like this is awesome," says one teacher at Walnut Hills High. In free time, Dale programs computers at the University of Cincinnati's Kettering Laboratory ("It's just a job, really"). Dale took up astronomy at six, and his prime interest is "where physics, math and astronomy meet-cosmology, deep space distribution of matter." He hopes after...