Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...wheel whose rim has 300 microscopic ratchet teeth. The turning of this wheel moves the hands of the watch through a conventional gear train. Bulova guarantees that its electronic watch, which it calls the Accutron. will not gain or lose more than one minute per month. Price of present-model watches...
...problem still remaining is to prove that no natural phenomenon will look like a space test to Westervelt's detectors. The model at Los Alamos has already passed one test: it is not fooled by lightning. Next month it will be moved to Fairbanks, Alaska to see whether it cries a false bomb scare when a strong aurora shines in the night sky. Only if it can distinguish a nuclear explosion from all natural events will the detector be recommended for international test watching...
...sales. In the second ten days of October, sales of cars rose 11% over the first ten days, just about equaling the alltime record set last year. The industry is selling 21,730 cars a day, is racing toward 550,000 domestic sales in October. Counting import-model sales, that would make October the best such month in history. For the first time in seven years, fewer than half the cars being sold in the U.S. are eight-cylinder models, reflecting the rapid rise of the six-cylinder compacts...
...activities, Frank T. Baldwin remembers Lodge as not only a "very brilliant student" but also "a very entertaining guy to live with." On weekends, the roommates often would drive to Nahant and picnic on Lodge's beach. Three of them, including Cabot, had drivers' licenses and bought an old Model T Ford which Newell describes as "the hot rod of its day--sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't." When it didn't, it occasionally involved the owners in embarrassing situations. Once the car stalled in front of the Massachusetts State House with Cabot driving. Three or four...
Enthusiastic Reception. Detroit reported that its 1961 model-automobile year got off to an impressive start, with daily new-car sales up 7.5% over last year (to 19,539 cars) in the first ten days of October, for the best ten-day rate since June. American Motors reported "the best reaction in our history" to its 1961 cars; Plymouth and Valiant daily sales were reported 30% ahead of last year in the first ten days, the best since their record 1953; Dodge delivered nearly twice as many Darts as it did last year; Ford sold 12,361 Falcons...