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When the 250-ton fishing boat Barnegat put out of Beaufort, N.C. for the menhaden*grounds one morning last winter, she carried some visitors who had never made the trip before. They were Bendix engineers, on board to check on the Barnegat's electronic "fish-finder." The reports from the finder came through just fine and the boat closed on a big school of fish. Then, as the Barnegat's 20 fishermen began to haul in their first good catch of the day, the engineers heard something that made them look up from their graphs in wonder...
...sharp-angled roof and a picture window, radiant heating in the floor, 12-by-16 ft. living room, bath, kitchen, two bedrooms on the first floor, and an "expansion attic" which can be converted into two more bedrooms and bath. The kitchen has a refrigerator, stove and Bendix washer; the living room a fireplace and a built-in Admiral television...
...Pasadena, the FBI arrested a mild-mannered, chess-playing, Russian-born physicist named Sidney Weinbaum, 52. He was charged with committing perjury and fraud in concealing his past membership in the Communist Party in filling out job questionnaires. A wartime theoretical physicist at Bendix Aviation, he became a senior research engineer in CalTech's jet-propulsion laboratory in 1946, has had only a research fellow's job at CalTech since 1949, when Army Intelligence withdrew his clearance to do confidential work. The FBI did not link him to Spy Courier Gold, or to espionage...
There, scientists of the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group will load the brain with all available data on both planes: speed, range, altitude, rate of climb and fire power, along with such variables as weather, time of warning and accuracy. Then like a giant Bendix washer, the brain will whirl into action, stirring, scrambling, sorting, poking, prodding and reassembling the figures until the answer pops out next year, all set to be neatly starched and ironed. The only thing the machine won't do is make a decision...
Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart, 41, who gave up being Hollywood's Most Eligible Bachelor five weeks ago, retired from another fast-moving field. After his souped-up F51 won the Bendix Trophy at Cleveland this week, he announced that the ship was for sale: "I can't afford both a wife and a plane...