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Haste is the standing excuse of the newsman whose deadline bouts with the typewriter let a cliche or two slip past his careless eye. In an effort to reduce the cliche content of its own copy, the Associated Press, which must cope with haste to a greater degree than most...
Just what wonders Du Pont will uncork next is hard to forecast, if only because the company's compass is so wide. Du Pont's chemists-like their colleagues throughout the chemical industry-never stop asking questions: How can electricity be transmitted without causing heat, what makes plants...
To millions of Americans, the 113-year-old Western Union Telegraph Co. means bicycling messengers in green uniforms, miles of wire-carrying poles along railroad tracks and yellow shafts of light from all-night offices. The telegram business still accounts for more than half of the company's revenues...
Belli charged that today law schools are more interested in emphasizing commercial and computer aspects of law than the historical foundations upon which society and law are based.
More Power to Them. Though some managers have lost their jobs to computers, higher-echelon men will not be replaced but simply reoriented to accommodate the machine. At companies such as Lockheed and Westinghouse, young executives are trained in computerized management in night school courses that are a cross between the Pentagon's war games and Monopoly; competing teams of executives use the machines as aids in determining the likely effects of changes in prices, inventories, styles or advertising. In a sense, the computer enhances the executive's powers by cutting through all the statistics and presenting several...