Word: speed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...chief reason the Jeffs are so good on defense is their big, blond co-captain, all-American fullback Drew Mallory. For the third year in a row, Mallory foiled Crimson scoring hopes Saturday, demonstrating awesome speed and uncanny reflexes...
...Eisenhower-Nixon Administration has failed us for the past 7½ years. We are now behind Russia in the space race, ballistic missile production and development, education, military manpower, and speed of economic growth. Developments in Cuba, Japan, Latin America and the Middle East have shocked us. We cannot afford to continue this dangerous drift. To lead us in the next four years we must have new faces in the White House-those of Kennedy and Johnson...
...Computer Is Born. It was the transistor, with its minuscule size and swiftness, which made possible the modern computer, perhaps the second greatest postwar new product. While shrinking in size, computers have vastly increased their speed and ability to handle problems. The fastest, IBM's $13.5 million STRETCH model, can add two 15-digit numbers in an incredible two-millionths of a second...
...speed conventional construction projects, there are new guns galore: Flint-kote's "Sealzit" spray guns spray roofing on flat or free-form surfaces, may well make the shingle obsolete. Atlanta's Lenox Square shopping center was constructed with the True Gun. developed by Tulsa's Max True, which sprays concrete. A wire-tying gun enables workmen simply to aim at the joint where steel reinforcing rods need to be lashed, pull the trigger, and the job is done. For do-it-yourself fans, Chicago's Wonder Building Corp. has brought out fallout-bomb-shelter kits: backyard...
STUDEBAKER-PACKARD CORP. bought Clarke Floor Machine Co. for about $4,000,000. Purchase allows S-P to offset Clarke's profits against its own massive tax losses. It is fourth Studebaker-Packard acquisition in past 16 months and first since Clarence Francis moved in as chairman to speed up diversification...