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This opaque advice sounded as if it had been ground out by a computer-as it had. The report on crime was prepared by scientists of Space-General Corp. using systems-engineering techniques to determine the feasibility of applying space-industry technology to the problems of crime. Translated into terrestrial...
Meanwhile New York, bastion of the crawling car and the double-parked truck, is only coping. Traffic Commissioner Henry A. Barnes has seen to it that Manhattan's major north-south streets are going-or will go-one way, and traffic has speeded up about 30%. Last week Barnes...
Goof on the Ground. In other technical areas, Gemini had at least one negative aspect. Instead of touching down last week within sight of the carrier Lake Champlain as planned, the astronauts fell short by 103 miles. Investigators at the Manned Spaceflight Center in Houston soon traced the trouble: human...
Linked by radio to the computer, police in one prowl car simply call off a sampling of passing license numbers. As a teletypist feeds the numbers into the computer, it compares them with the stored list. When it "hits" a wanted number, a bell rings, the number is automatically typed...
Once again the International Typographical Union flexed its muscle and forced a publisher to back down. After weeks of trying to install a computer that would cut costs and increase the speed of typesetting, the New York Post's Mrs. Dorothy Schiff said that her paper could not meet...