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Rising Profits. A merger in 1958 with the Marchant Co., a maker of calculators and adding machines, helped Mead fill out a compact line of office equipment and brought a change in the corporate name to Smith-Corona Marchant. Out came a stream of new products. Among them: a new...
Skipping the traditional oral intelligence briefings that come packaged with map board, pointer and colonel attached, he demands tightly written papers that he can scan with his built-in, wide-screen-camera mind. Answers to hard questions are demanded with computer speed. The Pentagon's "action officers" now act...
Close to a nuclear reactor lies a patient, his brain exposed to a beam of neutrons, while doctors watch through a window. On a dormitory roof a handful of students lift their wineglasses to toast the sunrise after an all-night question-and-answer session with a professor of aerodynamics...
Assistant Professor Richard Thornton has still another method of teaching do-it-yourself science in his electrical engineering classes. He created a kit for his students consisting of a plastic pegboard and a plastic box full of tiny parts-200 resistors, 50 capacitors, 6 transistors, etc. About the size of...
Improved communications also help brokerage houses handle the load and keep their customers happy as well. From any of Goodbody's 39 branches outside New York City a customer's order is teletyped over A.T. & T.'s Finac network to the home office, where an operator puts...