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Your recollection of the way Ed Lahey brought one of his news stories to conclusion several years ago [Dec. 19] provokes one Lahey admirer to remember how he began one. On the day Richard Loeb was killed in Joliet Prison, 111. by a fellow inmate to whom he had ma.de an indecent proposal, Lahey began his story approximately thus: "Thrill-killer Loeb, for all his fine college education, today ended his sentence with a proposition...
...from the Sealantic Fund (John D. Rockefeller Jr.) for its theology faculty, and $4,324,200 from the Ford Foundation's great gift to U.S. colleges (TIME, Dec. 26), the University of Chicago received an estimated $15 million plus from the will of the late Louis Block, Joliet (Ill.) industrialist (Blockson Chemical Co.). The bequest is to establish the "Louis Block fund for basic research and advanced study" in the physical and biological sciences...
...Gary, Ind., General Railway Signal Co. installed the nation's first fully automated freight-car yard for the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway. By using radar and electronic brain circuits, the system sorts out and assembles freight cars by destination, automatically weighs them and controls their speed as they roll down an incline to assembly points, where they are coupled into trains. General Railway Signal is now installing similar systems in six other yards...
...industries as oil, chemicals, and atomic energy, where materials are dangerous for men to handle but easily adaptable to machines, have necessarily become almost completely automatic. Some are even using TV to keep an eye on remote-control processes. The Army is building a completely automatic TNT factory in Joliet, 111., while work on an atomic engine for the AEC includes such contraptions as General Electric's "O-Man," a 15-ton remote-controlled claw to handle radioactive material. (It can screw a nut on a bolt, and can even be made to pick up an egg.) Oil refineries...
...devout Methodist father had expressly forbidden him to read the book, but 13-year-old William Ernest Hocking of Joliet, Ill. could not resist the temptation. A usually obedient boy, he sneaked Herbert Spencer's First Principles out to the haymow, read with horrified fascination the book's conclusion that whatever Supreme Power might lie behind the universe, it "is utterly inscrutable." When he had finished, young Hocking realized that "father was right: the damage was done. I had started out life with a perfectly sound brand of orthodox religion. Now, I had lost...