Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They had fought, by that time, the equivalent of 70 rounds, and on several occasions got carried away and forgot to pull their punches. "You couldn't put those two together without them testing each other," says Woroner. Ali bloodied Marciano's nose (just as the computer said...
...producer-promoter of this unusual event is Murry Woroner, the Miamian behind radio's popular computerized boxing series (TIME, Nov. 8, 1968). For the fight, a panel of several hundred sportswriters and ex-boxers rated each of the champs on 129 characteristics (speed, tendency to cut, ring generalship). The results were then put through an NCR 315 computer, which spun out a punch-by-punch script...
This time, to improve on the old radio show, Woroner paid the flesh-and-blood boxers to act the bout out before cameras. Marciano, who had been retired for 14 years, trained off 53 Ibs. and was fitted with a toupee. He and Muhammad Ali pounded away for three days...
Two of his works are scheduled to be published later this year. Urban Analysis will be an application of analytical techniques to urban systems, and An Economic Analysis of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 is a study of the economic consequences of housing legislation, using computer models...
High-Voltage Sales. Cornfeld started I.O.S. 14 years ago as a one-man firm in a Paris flat. Today it has grown into the world's largest financial sales organization, with 16,000 salesmen and 800,000 clients in 110 countries. Despite the natural resistance created by falling stock...