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...electronic brain, the Elecom 100. The compact machine will answer such practical corporate problems as the overall wage bill, taxes, etc. Capable of "remembering" 102,400 combinations of nine decimal digits each, the brain can also be used for complicated aerodynamic problems. Elecom is run from a panel on an office desk, and the answers are recorded on an electric typewriter. Price...
Guess What Happened? (Thurs.8:30 p.m., NBC). Debut of a panel show aimed at discovering what big news stories some plain citizens have helped to make; with Moderator John Cameron Swayze, Comic Roger Price, Humorist H. Allen Smith...
...convention campaign had tested several techniques of television political coverage. One of the most widely used is the panel discussion, which tends, unless rehearsed, to be a hash of unrelated statements. When it is rehearsed, it tends to be a cliche contest. The giant "press conference" is another waste of time in most cases, although occasionally (e.g., Ike's first press conference at Abilene) it comes to life. One of the most successful TV techniques is the small press conference, with one public man and eight or ten really well-trained reporters...
...hand as moderator, as in the old radio days, was urbane, acid Clifton Fadiman. Sitting on the panel were the old experts, John Kieran and Franklin P. Adams, and, as guest member of the panel, Author James (South Pacific) Michener (missing: wiseacre Pianist Oscar Levant, who now lives in California). After the familiar cockcrow and the challenge to "Wake up, America, time to stump the experts!" Video Veteran Fadiman (CBS's This Is Show Business) tried hard to settle his team into the old fluid pace of the radio series...
...Judge Hugh Taylor of rural Monticello, Fla. dismissed a hundred prospective jurors who had been called for the murder trial of two Negroes and ordered a new panel, which includes four Negroes-the first break from the county's traditional practice of barring Negroes from jury lists...