Word: bit
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...faculty members to M.I.T. for training. Most important, it will be used to set up 75 four-year scholarships (average cost: $1,000 a year) for the ablest youngsters O.C.U. can find. Score card to date: 21 scholarships, awarded to high school seniors throughout Oklahoma and Texas. Casting a bit of sarcasm at Oklahoma U.. Oilman McGee said: "We aim to recruit bright students just like Bud Wilkinson recruits that football team...
...serious about nothing but fun, much too shrewd to lecture the grownups-they might cut off a fellow's allowance. Indeed, Director Wilder in this picture establishes himself as one of the cinema's most skillful creators of comedy, low, medium or high. There is a great bit of buffoonery in which the bachelor hero uses a tennis racket as a spaghetti strainer. There is a piece of business in which the heroine, when asked how many affairs she has had, admits to three but unconsciously lifts four fingers. And there is a telephone conversation between Lover...
...have a valid function in space. As instrumented spacecraft get more and more sophisticated, it becomes more and more difficult to transmit, record, digest and interpret their food of raw data. The best solution at present is to put small computers in the spacecraft. One kind, called a "Tele-bit," translates the data from the instruments into figures that are sufficiently simple to send over the transmitter and can go directly into a big ground computer. But when spacecraft begin to work at such distances as Mars, even this sort of wizardry becomes cumbersome. Frorn as far away as Mars...
...This bit of fantasy is the work of George Robert Newhart, 30, the most successful new comedian since Shelley Berman. His record. The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, is climbing steadily up Variety's LP bestseller charts, standing fifth last week, topped only by such formidably publicized competition as Elvis Is Back and The Sound of Music. In the eight weeks it has been on the market, the record has sold 132,000 copies.* Last week Newhart signed for a Midas-clutch of fall TV shows (including four Ed Sullivan appearances), and his nightclub fees have gone from...
...snake. It slithered away, and for a moment he overlooked its 3-ft. cage mate, coiled by the door on Ken's blind side (he lost the sight of his right eye as a child in an accident with a rubber band). In that same second the snake bit Ken on his right hand...