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Nixon: No Steam Yet. Nixon, who was formally admitted to the New York bar last week, was still biding his time. Yet, as everyone knows, the nomination must now seem vastly more valuable to him than it did before Kennedy's death...
Died. George Eli Whitney, 101, Yankee tinkerer, inventor (in 1896) of the two-cylinder auto steam engine that powered the first Locomobile, a grandnephew of the inventor of the cotton gin, who dreamed up more than 150 gizmos, including a garage-door closer and a portable asphalt brick machine; in Manchester...
...simplest terms, the issue was one which many other industries must confront in seeking automation. What should become of the men displaced by machines? Because of the change from steam to diesel engines, management contends that firemen are no longer needed. By employing these and other unnecessary men the railroads lose $600 million annually. Beset with competition from barges, trucks, and pipelines, management believes that the railroads cannot sustain these costs and survive. The unions, in opposing plans to eliminate the alleged waste of manpower, voice their concern for the welfare of their members...
...year-old electrical-equipment giant called ASEA (pronounced ah-say-ah), which is Sweden's equivalent of General Electric. ASEA not only produces a long list of products that range from giant generators to locomotives, but controls 26 subsidiaries that include Electrolux (vacuum cleaners) and STAL-LAVAL (steam and gas turbines). Sweden's biggest private employer with 32,500 workers, the ASEA group last year had sales of $336 million and earnings of $11.5 million...
...laughs from an episode that has three comedians tearing down a garage with all the deadly, humorless efficiency of a professional demolition crew. Cutting from incident to incident, car to car, ground to air, the film dissipates its fun at every turn, and the only chase to build up steam is a Chase named Barrie, who dances a wicked deadpan twist. Mad World reaches its nadir with an abortive climax that puts Spencer Tracy and ten comedians atop a fire ladder reeling several stories above the street, presumably on the assumption that eleven men suspended in mid-air will...