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work has begun on Hasty Pudding Show number 114, which Walter Benson '62, producer, described last night as "a jab at nepotism in the Kennedy family." The play will be concerned with the tribulations of the Peace Corps in Africa...
Three authors were named by Benson: Carter Wilson '63 will write the book, walter H. Moses, Jr. '62 the music, and Alan H. Lutkus '63 the Iyrics. Moses and Lutkus collaborated on last year's production. Wilson, who has written and worked in the theater previously, will be turning out his first Pudding show...
Tryouts for production positions will start in early November, Benson said, although the casting does not begin until the first week of February. The play is scheduled to open March...
...Angeles, Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard F. Libby proudly displayed his "poor man's shelter." Dug out of a hillside, it is protected with railroad ties and bags of dirt, is adequate for a 48-hour stay, cost all of $30. In Malibu, Missile Scientist and Electronics Manufacturer Bernard Benson, his wife and seven children had a $15,000 shelter built to withstand any bomb damage but a direct hit. Along with food and water, Benson has stocked his hideout with beer and a 1925 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A nuclear attack, says he, will set civilization back...
...those who regard electronic brains with a hostile eye came support from an unlikely source: Bernard Benson, 39, English-born president of California's Benson-Lehner Corp., manufacturers of data-processing equipment. As more and more personal information about Americans is fed into computer drums from social security forms, credit records and employment files, said Benson, only a "deliberate effort to guide technology in the direction of freedom" will save the U.S. from "a big-brother machine that is all-seeing, all-knowing, all-watching." Another Benson worry: the tendency to forget that a computer's judgment...