Herald and news., July 13, 1958, Page 49, Image 49

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by Paul Sttiner
A new electronic computer is capable
of transferring words from its "memory" unit
to the arithmetical unit in a 12-millionth
of a second. Seventy percent of its
calculations are executed at the rate of
41,700 per second.
After
studies of
primitive
tribes in
South
America, two Columbia University
scientists assert that Peruvians and Mexicans
have a much harder bite than Americans.
Peruvians exerted jaw pressure of 184
pounds, and Mexicans 166 pounds, in
comparison with 127 pounds
for American athletes.
fJ Birds that fly South
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XT third of their total
weigm in iai,
compared with
6 to 7 percent for
nonmigrating birds,
according to a
University of Georgia scientist.
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On an average holiday week end, motorists
throw some 100,000 tons of trash along
America's highways.
The human body contains enough lime to
whitewash a chicken coop, a medical
researcher has figured.
Americans ate an average of 25,000
inches of spaghetti last year, the National
Macaroni Institute reports.
The average person is
covered by 18 to 20 square
feet of skin, according
to a cosmetics firm.
Twenty-million pounds
of rock have to be
processed to find one
pound of diamonds,
reports Emily Hahn,
author of "Diamond."
The average American uses up
nine pencils a year.
It would take 20,000 pounds of pressure
to flatten a regulation football to the
point where it exploded.
One generation ago, Americans ate only
a quarter of a pound of broiler fowl
per capita. Now they eat 16 pounds of it
a year, according to the poultry industry.
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