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...Indian. Non-whites make up 3.2 per cent of urban areas and 6.7 per cent of central cities. Since 70,000 of the state's Negroes live in such cities, and only 5,000 in the rest of the state, the race issue has not yet confronted many Wisconsinites. One-tenth of the counties have no significant Negro population...
...calls a "minimum sales quota" of 5,000 Centurys worth $1 billion to be sold or rented during the next five years (initial orders last week: 208). One way NCR hopes to meet the quota is through improved technology. The company's laboratories have developed a new kind of memory system, which uses thin-film rods instead of conventional doughnut-shaped cores and is cheaper to manufacture. Each rod, one-tenth of an inch long, is coated with a thin film of magnetic material and then "danced" into coils of wire where 4,600 rods grouped together make...
...have furnished much of the material and most of the men and most of the lives. We are rich and strong and populous. There are nearly 200-million of us. But there are 2-billion people in the free world. And it makes little sense for a nation with one-tenth the world's population to be fighting wars all over the world...
Harvard's Alpine performance at Middlebury was outstanding. In the slalom. Which Friedman called "the best single event in Harvard's history," Crimson skiers captured four out of the top ten places. Willy Draper led the Harvard contingent, placing second behind Rick Launsbury of Dartmouth by one-tenth of a second. Mike Cock and Peter and Larry Carter--the other Harvard racers--placed sixth, seventh, and tenth respectively...
Continuing in a statistical vein, he noted only one-tenth of one per cent of eligible Peace Corps men have had trouble with their draft boards. If that happens, said Vaughn, all the Corps officials--and in one case even the King of Nepal--write to the boards and General Hershey saying "you can't do that." This policy has been successful, he said...