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Hailed as "a great occasion for both education and industry," the dedication of the new center is the result of the close co-operation maintained between Harvard and IBM since the first large-scale digital computer was developed some 20 years ago. The machine was designed by Howard H. Aiken, professor emeritus of Applied Mathematics, in collaboration with IBM engineers. In operation since last May, the center provides research facilities for virtually all the University's departments and schools...
Gentle Erskine Caldwell. Untermeyer not only wrote for Modern Masters but serves as Crowell-Collier's talent scout in rounding up other writers. Among them: Critic Mark Van Doren, Playwright William Saroyan, Poets John Ciardi, Conrad Aiken and Muriel Rukeyser. That mistress of creepy grownup prose, Novelist Shirley Jackson (The Lottery), has written a sunlit winner, Nine Magic Wishes. Erskine Caldwell, the drugstore Rabelais, has "dumfounded" Crowell-Collier with a primer described as "amazingly gentle." The usually dour Playwright Arthur Miller offers Jane's Blanket, which he outlines thus: "A little girl named Jane sadly watches...
Underdog Philip H. Hoff upset incumbent Governor F. Ray Keyser and became the first Democratic governor in 109 years. Republican Senator George D. Aiken was re-elected over W. Robert Johnson, as was Vermont's single Congressional representative...
...turnabout resulted from a partisan congressional mood brought on by the approaching elections; the bill picked up some Democratic supporters who were irked by the solid Republican opposition. But no one thought its passage had rid the U.S. of its farm scandal. Said Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken ,as he emerged from the House-Senate conference that agreed to the final version: "Well, I can't solve the farm problem, so I'm going over to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Cuba's easier...
When grave national issues are involved, Everett Dirksen is not a partisan." In a flood of oratory, Republican after Republican rose to toss bouquets toward Dirksen. Vermont's George Aiken praised his fairness and courage. California's Thomas Kuchel his unselfishness and erudition...