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Using Univac costly-$50-$400 an hourr saving is in man hours * By Martha Adams marriage counseling and radiol New projects are being fed toogy. the maws of the Univac 1105 here Although most of the Univac’s at UNC- every day, comkig from 20 hour day is occupied with work fields as varied as home econ- for the U. S. Census Bureau, it omics, statistics, cancer research, still has time left over to solve 'History repeats itself Reefs' dictatorial rule likened to that of ancient Spartans Hie successful liar is granted a position of power and honor in the society of Russian Communism under Khrushchev—just as decep tion and false guises were charac teristic of the wirst attributes of the Spartans and Corcyreans of ancient Greece. That inference is drawn from the thesis developed in a study disclosed here by Preston Epps, Kenan Professor Emeritus of Greek. Noting that the traits which dis tinguished the regimes of Lenin, Stalin and now Khrushchev in Russia have mots that can be traced to the days of the Spartans and Corcyreans, Prof. Epps show ed how both modem and ancient Qicyators1 twisted pacts w suk new revolutionary systems and to protect themselves from counter revolutions. How the military might of 10, 000 Spartans ruled 300,000 other Greeks by power, decption and trickery was compared by Prof. Epps with the strategy of Nazis under Hitler and Communists w der Khrushchev. Epps said the Soviet leaders’ hot-and-cold tactics have fm his toric background and that Krem lin policy “is Bribing mare than Spartan ar.d Ccrcyre&'j duuble dehling which distorts for i s own purpose the laxat tech iqoe'! o' modem psychology and scientific achievement.” , lie stated that when dictator ships emerge it a country, it ap pears that the post is a mirror of the present and that history does indeed repeat itself, ARMY NEEDS RADIO MEN There is on immediate’need for radio operators in the Radio Code field of the United States Army. Young mm interested id receiv ing professional training in re ception and transmission of mes sage by Itomational Morse Code, voice radio and blinker signals, use of code devices, radio trans mission security, communications procedures and other related sub jects should see their local Army recruiter. The Army’ “Choose It Yourself’ program Recruiting Sgt. C. K. Grimes is at Post Office in Chapel Hill on Tuesdays, and the Mayor’s Office in Hillsboro on Thursday from 1 pm. to 3:30 p.m. When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. —Edward George BUlwer-Lytbcn some of (he problems coming- to il from all branches of the Uni versity and other colleges and in stitutions in the state. A quick glance at the projects presently on file in the Office of Dr, John W. Carr HI, director of the Computation Center, provides clear proof of the versatility of the machine and the varied uses to which the college community is already putting it..' Predict passing algebra? The Uni vac will bell Dr. Boy E. SommerfeJd of the Education School some of the ways he oan predict whether a child will sue He livened up class lectures with a nip \ To the layman, a lecture by a medical doctor is a dry affair—in more way than one. Not so with the lectures given by, Dr. Johann Ludwig Witoelm Thudichum, 1929-1901, who was a German by birth but a natural ized British subject who prac ticed medicine in London. [ One oi the doctor’s favorite sub jects was wine. And when be lec tured on wines, he brought a few jugs of' the subject on which he was speaking along for his au dience to sample. One of his better known pub lished works was "On Wines, Ori gin, Nature, Analysis and Uses; With Inferences to a New Alcoholic Drink Made From Tea.” At the present'time, there is an exhibit of Dr. Thudichum’s works, with numerous photographs show ing his various- activities, on dis play at the Division of Health Af fairs Library at the University School of Medicine. The public is invited to view the exhibit. The library is open from 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday, and Saturday, mornings. SAVE NOW FOR HIS FUTURE Every mother end father have great plans for their children's future and wise parents save steadily to help their plans come truel The time to start is NOW. Your savings, added to regularly, will grow rapidly and you'll be ready for the day that is now the dreamed of « future. Don't delay — come in soon and discuss your savings program — and open your account. T) ceed cr not in his second year algebra course. It will provide Kenneth C Mc Intyre of the Bn re an of Aadfc v tonal Education with some of .the reasons why certain college and university teachers may be sometimes reluctant to use audio-visual- aids in the class room and what can be dene about it Advice • Even the homemakers and marriage counselors can be helped by the Uni vac. Dr. Pauline E. Heeney of the Woman’s College School of Home Economics will use the Univac to investigate the relation between fiber elongation and the service-ability of differ ent typos of cotten sheeting. The Institute of Preventive Me dicine and Genetics at the Bow man Gray School of Medicine has asked the Univac to analyse the results of a questionnaire for mar riage counselors Dr. Nash Hen don and Dr. Eleanor Nash are project supervisors. Make highways safer The Univac may help make our highways better and safer. In con nection with a project being con ducted by Dr. R. A. Douglas and Mr. J. R. Walton of the Depart ment of Civil EnginecrMg at State College, it will prepare a Simula lion of a two way traffic flow along a two lane highway. Dr. Dudley J. Cowdesi and Dr. Lowell D. Ashby of the Econo mics Department have asked for time on the machine to analyse an economic time se ries and set np a linear inter polation and allocation of agri cultural employment. The time required by the macb* me to solve these problems is amazingly short. Dr. Ashby’s pro. ject in economics will take no more than five minutes to com pute once it is in the Uni vac. Most of the problems, however, will require from Vi to t hours. Seme will take as many as 10 or miHe. The Ifodvac is expensive to operate. Rates far its services vary from $S0 to $400 an hour de pending on the origin of tbs pro ject. But the machine well makes up for it in man hours saved. It is estimated that solely to the work it is doing on the Camus it will save the Government more than its original $2.4 million cost S RENTAL EQUIPMENT - Floor Sanders, Ladders, Polishers, Hand Senders Sherwin - Williams 404 W. Franklin Tsl. 0-2041 made f°r the family ON A BUDGET1. FRIGIDAIRE AUTOMATIC WASHER with special new AUTOMATIC SOAK CYCLE! fw load the wisher and sat the dial... deep dirt and soK an soak loosened sod floated away—.automatically I It's US treatment at heavily soiled clothing really needs-, eerfc and play clothes and diapers! m Bart Wask Sefeetw wifk BENNETT & BLOCKSIDGE 105 E. Franklin St. , Chapel HiHr N. C r
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