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To create flexibility in time as well as space, class periods are broken into 20-minute units that can be combined to fit instructional needs. The end of a period is signaled by intercom music rather than bells. Class schedules are laid out by a Stanford University computer. Team teaching...
>Orange County, Calif., used paper ballots for its primary elections of June 1964. It took some 10,000 workers about 36 hours to complete the count, at a cost of $600,000. But by the time of the November elections, Orange County had installed something called the Coleman Vote Tally...
> Contra Costa County, Calif., also began using the Coleman system in November 1964. Despite some bugs and errors, it reduced the number of precincts from 1,164 to 720, election personnel from 7,384 to 2,880, the election payroll from $127,797 to $73,870, and the man-hours...
∙ STONY BROOK, located within 30 miles of famed Brookhaven National Laboratories, is the most exciting campus in the system. So new that the ivy is only about six inches up the red brick walls, it expects to challenge any university in physics research within a few years. Its $30...
Computer Sculpture. Utzon soon discovered that architecture conceived as sculpture often becomes an engineering nightmare. The sails are all designed as gores taken from a master sphere. V-shaped ribs are cast from master molds on the site. Eventually these neo-Gothic ribs will be sheathed in white tiles, leaving...