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An Unknown Segment. Yet many jobs requiring skills go unfilled. In New York City, municipal hospitals need 60% more registered nurses. In Philadelphia, 15,000 skilled jobs have no takers. The U.S. needs, among other occupations, more auto mechanics, carpenters, computer tenders, and machinists. Experts foresee by 1970 a need...
Today Honeywell sees its greatest future in automation, which Chairman Paul Wishart, 65, prefers to call "instrumentation." "It's the biggest single investment in a product that we have ever made," says President James H. Binger, 47, the company's chief operating officer. Honeywell makes computers both for...
...machine is the IBM 1410 computer of the U.S. Commerce Department's National Driver Register Service, a little-known Government body set up by an Act of Congress 2½ years ago. It is a step toward a computerized Big Brotherhood that may one day be keeping elaborate tab on everybody...
All U.S. citizens who have had their drivers' licenses revoked for drunken driving or who have been in a fatal crash are listed in a master file, against which the computer can check any new license application and flash a reply within 24 hours to the state that sends...
The 1410 handily nabs such types as one Washingtonian who lost his District of Columbia license, got another in Virginia, and when that was revoked, picked up one in Maryland-which he was carrying when he killed a five-year-old child. The computer also has a wily way of...