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...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 up a memory plane. NCR has also standardized integrated circuits in its computers so that they need only 120 types of cards instead...
Slalom competition was the last event of the Championship, and neither of Harvard's entries placed. Watson was eliminated for missing a gate, one of a series of poles that mark the course, and O'Rere did not finish. Rick Chaffee, rated tenth among international slalom skiers, took first place...
...turns banked at 31° and a third turn banked at 18°. The banking, the perfectly smooth asphalt paving, plus the track's unusual width -three cars can race abreast-make it the fastest race track in the world. In qualifying trials for last week's tenth annual Daytona 500, the top 13 qualifiers ran the course at more than 180 m.p.h...
Even on the surface, the proposition that every tenth oncoming vehicle encountered on the highway is likely to be driven by an alcoholic is less than reassuring, but on closer examination the matter appears even more serious. Following on the research findings that demonstrated the high proportion of alcohol-related accidents, a second generation of studies now begins to establish that a wholly disporportionate number of such accidents involve not just drinking drivers but, in fact, alcoholic drivers. Reports from Sweden, Germany, Canada and Australia, as well as those carried out in the United States, increasingly converge on the probability...
...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...