Word: tapes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This week in Philadelphia, 56-year-old Referee Swaffield will bind up a game left leg with twelve yards of adhesive tape, then gallop up & down Municipal Stadium for some six miles before 100,000 witnesses who will hardly even notice him. The fans will be watching the Army-Navy game and the four stripe-shirted officials will be just mobile scenery, chiefly worth attention only if they commit bloopers or get knocked down and run over by a power play...
Last year Alberts went back to Africa. Equipping a "poor man's safari," including a jeep, a high-fidelity tape recorder and cameras, Alberts and his wife Lois covered 6,000 miles through the jungle and subdesert of southwestern French West Africa, the Gold Coast and Liberia. The best and most widely representative of what he caught on his tape recorder was out last week in three handsome albums: Tribal, Folk and Cafe Music of West Africa (Field Recordings, 24 sides; $25.88). Including much material never recorded before, Alberts' albums are a gold mine for musicologists and anthropologists...
From the minute he entered a crowded courtroom in Los Angeles' federal building, Mickey was the star of the show. Wearing a natty brown suit, brown tie and deep black scowl, he faced a whole battery of newsmen, photographers, movie cameras and tape recorders. Said Mickey proudly: "I could spit on the sidewalk and it would make headlines." For five hours, without notes and without much help from his two lawyers, he answered questions put by committee lawyers and three Senators. Whenever they put him on the spot, Mickey would hoist his bushy eyebrows, look injured and answer...
...Scares, vice president and general manager of Remington Rand, Inc., told of a machine, UNIVAC, manufactured by his company, that can do most of the numerical tasks now performed by flesh & blood clerks. In computing payroll checks, for instance, it "reads" (at 10,000 characters per second) two magnetic tapes with numbers coded on them. One tape carries all the data about each employee: his wage rate, tax status, pension deductions, etc. The other carries the hours worked by each during the pay period. By comparing the tapes at lightning speed, UNIVAC can compute a complicated payroll...
...A.F.L., which made the first at-1936, tried again in 1943, but Mulvihill points out that it was the desire of the tempt to organize University labor in University employees to have an independent union that would devote itself to University problems without outside influence and red tape...