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Cherington, an expert in transportation and government regulation of industry, said that a rural area with adequate means of access would be the best location for the academic community of the future. Peterborough, he said, "has a lot of fine, vacant land. And it will be closer to New York by automobile," he said, "particularly when they get this new Buck Rodgers highway...
...rail. The savings are so impressive that Union Carbide & Carbon has dredged a nine-mile cut to the waterway to ship goods from its chemical plant at Seadrift, Texas, while Chemstrand Corp. dredged a 22-mile channel near Tallahassee, Fla., to give its huge nylon plant access...
Memory Machine. International Business Machines introduced a memory computer to step up office automation. The computer will tell a businessman immediately how daily transactions in sales, payroll, inventory, production, etc. affect any desired aspect of his business. Called RAMAC (Random Access Memory Accounting machine), the computer also serves as an electronic filing cabinet in which company figures are stored on 50 magnetic metal disks, will turn out any needed figure in seconds, thus eliminate endless hours of file checking. Rental per month...
...Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were briefed regularly. In the case of Eisenhower, who had resigned as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, the previous June to campaign for the presidency, the material was of slight value. Explained Ike last week: "I was in the middle of the military organization that had access to all of the type of information that I could possibly get. And so the additional information that I received, because of my peculiar status, was very limited, indeed...
...Strings. This year the situation is different. The U.S. is not at war. But the rival candidate for the presidency, who has not held a public office for four years, has had no access to U.S. secrets. A fortnight ago, after Adlai Stevenson had said at a press conference that he would "welcome" intelligence reports, President Eisenhower offered him "periodic briefings on the international scene from a responsible official in the Central Intelligence Agency." The information would be secret and exclusively for Stevenson's personal knowledge, he reminded, but otherwise with no strings attached...