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Howard H. Aiken, retired professor of Applied Mathematics and a pioneer in developing large-scale digital computers, was honored last night at a dinner in the Harvard Club of Boston...
...surprise dinner, Acting President Charles A. Coolidge '17 presented Aiken with a silver model of Mark I, the world's first such computer, which Aiken helped to design. The model accurately represents the mammoth Mark I--down to tiny flashing panel lights and thumbnail-sized electric typewriter with keys and silver ribbons...
...Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Milwaukee, Beaver Ridge Farms, Oak Brook, Royal Palm. Solo Cup and Tulsa-Aiken thwack it out in the finals of the national polo tournament...
...most prominent members of the class, Conrad Aiken, was expected to arrive today. Actor-director Howard Lindsay, another famous member, did not attend this year...
...Kennedy Administration for claiming to have halted the recession, New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating dryly told his colleagues: "In the same category, I praise the President for having the sun shine and the flowers bloom and the spring season emerge upon us." Vermont Republican George Aiken leaped to his feet, protested: "The Senator gives the President altogether too much credit. The spring season did not emerge in time." Agreed Keating: "It is a little late...