Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard bought last year, and Brown-Beasley, assistant to the Office of Fiscal Services, is the computer's wet-nurse. There are ten terminals on this end of the third floor of Holyoke Center, he says, and they are so versatile that if you really wanted to, you could wire them up "every ten miles down the trans-Canadian pipeline." Brown-Beasley seems to like this phrase; he says it again before lifting the memory "drive," which looks like a stack of records inside a plastic cylinder, out of the machine and switching it off. He has officiated at several...
...still as effective as the G-Men who rounded up Dillinger, Floyd, Nelson and Barrow. Sure, some realized that the cases for the show were selected from the choicest FBI files--probably pre-selected to make sure that the epilogue didn't have the fugitives escaping on some illegal wire-tap charge or rubber-hose beating. But what we didn't know is that the FBI never let the script-writers have the last word. After the writers created the dialogue, the script was delivered to the Los Angeles Field Office of the FBI where it was checked for content...
Like the Derby, the tournament was a two-horse race from wire to wire. Larry Robbins and Larry Mori of the University of Michigan led all the way with consistently excellent session scores of 101, 100 and 98 1/2, for a 299 1/2 total. They edged out a University of Colorado Medical School pair by half a point to win a $2500 scholarship for their schools...
...merely a 3-ft.-high plastic cylinder, specially ventilated for turning garden and kitchen wastes quickly into compost. Students at the University of Miami enjoy almost instant tomatoes hydroponically grown by pouring liquid fertilizer into baskets filled with wood shavings outside their dorm windows. "Tomato rings"-wire-mesh cages about 4 ft. wide and 6 ft. high containing beds of grass clippings, table scraps and leaves-are popular for growing a variety of vegetables...
Chances are that the two favorites are simply faster than the rest of the field and, tired or not, one of them is likely to hit the wire before the others even get into gear. But should the speed-duel theorists be right, there are some qualified candidates waiting to pick up the pieces and a few roses as well...