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Choosing a System. Long just a corporate abstraction, three-year-old Comsat is a brand-new company in a brand-new field. It not only has the unprecedented job of orbiting three to 18 satellites by 1967, but has had to negotiate with 45 foreign powers to persuade them to join the system. The U.S. Government estimates that by 1980 more than 78% of all international communications, including telephone, telegraph, television, data transmission and perhaps facsimile newspapers, will be carried by satellites. Comsat will be the prime carrier, the wholesaler of satellite communications...
Because computer technology is so new and computers require such sensitive handling, a new breed of specialists has grown up to tend the machines. They are young, bright, well-paid (up to $30,000) and in short supply. With brand-new titles and responsibilities, they have formed themselves into a sort of solemn priesthood of the computer, purposely separated from ordinary laymen. Lovers of problem solving, they are apt to play chess at lunch or doodle in algebra over cocktails, speak an esoteric language that some suspect is just their way of mystifying outsiders. Deeply concerned about logic and sensitive...
...mightily but in vain. Last week 110 men accused of stealing hundreds of cars languished in jail as they awaited trial. Even in their absence, the theft of cars continues at a brisk thousand a month. One two-car Neapolitan family had its Fiat stolen in the morning, its brand-new Alfa Romeo in the afternoon. A Roman visitor found his car where he had parked it the night before-only the motor was gone...
...stockbroker and onetime public relations chief for Pepsi-Cola, had established a firm reputation along Embassy Row even before it became her job. It was up to Ann Hand, starting from scratch and a well-stocked closet, not only to prove that she could manage the tricks of a brand-new trade (everything from learning the names and faces of a hundred or so ambassadors by rote to making sure to seat Greeks and Turks at separate tables to remembering that the chargé d'affaires of the smallest principality outranks a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense) but also...
...New York City's brand-new subway was hailed as the growing edge of progress in 1904, when the first train pulled out of City Hall Station with the mayor at its sterling-silver throttle and a load of top-hatted dignitaries who made the nine-mile run to 145th Street and Broadway in 26 minutes. Today, the littered cars, clashing and swaying through the underground dark, packed torso to torso or eerie with emptiness, have increasingly become hunting grounds for the city's sick and sinister creatures of prey. Complaints of major crimes increased...