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...tedious accumulation and evaluation of infinite quantities of minutiae, have more in common with IBM's 360 than with Ian Fleming's 007. The task demands high intelligence as well as patience. A State Department veteran once said: "You'll find more liberal intellectuals per square inch at CIA than anywhere else in the Government." Indeed, the agency is staffed from top to bottom with some of the nation's best qualified experts; 30% have Ph.Ds. They are linguists, economists, cartographers, psychiatrists, agronomists, chemists, even anthropologists and foresters. CIA experts, it is said, could completely staff...
Before last week's 24-hour Daytona Continental road race even ended, a group of grim-faced Ford Motor Co. officials boarded a plane for Detroit, carrying a dozen battered 14-inch rods of steel. The rods were power output shafts for the transmissions of six 490-h.p. Mark II racers that Ford had entered in the season's first big sports-car race-with high hopes of retaining the world manufacturers' championship it had wrested away from Italy's Enzo Ferrari last year with victories at Daytona, Sebring and Le Mans. Ford had earmarked...
...college rules are contained in the Gray Book. Years ago, the Gray Book was an inch thick and each freshman was given a written test on its contents. Now there are no such tests and the Book is thinner. But looks are deceptive. Some rules have been relaxed; others carry their exactitude to ludicrous lengths. If the Gray Book is any clue, Wellesley's heart is still back in the old days...
...seamanship, he and his tars brought their gigantic vessel to dock all by themselves. So precise was his reckoning that the captain even noticed the tide was ebbing a few minutes early. "Rain upcountry, that sort of thing," he figured. It took almost 1½ hours, but not an inch of paint was scraped. "Well done, sir!" called a first-class passenger. "Lovely day," said Captain Marr...
Soon afterward, the moon's orbit began gradually spiraling outward to its present 239,000 miles. The tidal phenomena, though substantially reduced by distance, are still at work. The moon is still receding from the earth by about one inch every year. And the tidal braking effects are still at work increasing the length of the earth's day by .0018 seconds every century...