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...bugs that had delayed for many months delivery of the high-speed 601 computer. The first 601 started whirring last month at New Jersey Bell Telephone, which is paying $375,000 a year rental for it; two more have been ordered by Reader's Digest and Newark's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. Between lower costs and bigger sales, RCA's computer losses were cut almost in half-from about $34 million in 1961 to an estimated $17 million or so in 1962. After taxes, this presumably reduced the computer division's 1962 drain...
...news by actions taken by the Government is one weapon in a strained situation. The results, in my opinion, justify the methods we used." Last week Sylvester took the trouble to repeat himself. He knew why restrictions were necessary, he said. When he was a reporter for the Newark Evening News, some of the officials who answered some of the questions he asked "were jerks for doing so." He reiterated his dedication to the proposition that the Government has a right "to lie to save itself...
Jackpot, Scandal. Vanity overcoming discretion, Sherman phoned the Newark Evening News to boast of his own treasure trove, and the story of his bonanza burst into headlines across the country. In Washington, Postmaster General J. Edward Day reacted hastily. He directed the printing of 400,000 more Hammarskjolds with the identical imperfect backgrounds -thus knocking down the worth of the originals to little more than the 4? they had cost at the post office. Moaned Sherman's wife: "Isn't that lousy...
Died. Howard Roger Garis, 89, creator of a kindly, top-hatted rabbit named Uncle Wiggily as an extra assignment from his police beat on the Newark (N.J.) Evening News in 1909, who went on to write 200 children's books of the bunny's adventures in Hollow Stump with Fuzzy Wuzzy Nurse Jane and Dr. Possum that sold more than 5,000,000 copies; of leukemia; in Northampton, Mass...
Died. Frank Desiderio, 88, a strapping Italian immigrant to the U.S. in 1904 who literally rose from rags, which he collected witn a pushcart in Newark, N.J,. to riches by converting the contents of other people's wastebaskets into the $50 million Whippany Paper Board Co., rolling out 1,800 tons of paperboard daily; of a stroke; in Orange...