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...announcers persisted in calling "Doomtown, Nevada." Faithful televiewers turned out at 8 a.m. for six successive mornings only to be met each time with fresh postponements. But this failure to make a rendezvous with fission only brought out the essential pluck of the network newscasters. CBS's Charles Collingwood tried hard to keep his end up by filling in with a telecast from Las Vegas where, amid the clatter of one-armed bandits, he solemnly asked the proprietor of The Sands Hotel if he was used to A-blasts (he was). NBC's Dave Garroway was reported...
...CHARLES COLLINGWOOD...
...hours later the machine completely reversed its field. Commentator Charles Collingwood, who nursemaided the mechanical brain both in 1952 and last week, says: "Suddenly Univac said the Republicans were winning the House. We didn't know what to do. Should we change the machine? After all, last time the experts were wrong. I decided to stick with the machine." This particular error turned out to be caused by human frailty: a teletype operator had transposed the Democratic and Republican figures...
...Univac's mistaken idea that a Democratic sweep was in the making, Collingwood thinks it resulted from the fact that the first two states to report-Delaware and Connecticut-showed a heavier Democratic vote than was true of the national scene. Explains Collingwood, defensively: "After all, Univac is only human-that is, it can only make predictions based on the material that humans feed into it." Collingwood asked an attendant mathematician if he could explain what went wrong, and got the Einsteinian answer: "It may be in the taxability of the K factor...
...once got himself punished for letting off fireworks in the head. A pale, slim sublieutenant, sometimes doubled up with pains diagnosed much later as an ulcer, he saw action in the Battle of Jutland, where, as "Mr. Johnston," he was second-in-command of "A" turret aboard H.M.S. Collingwood. "The King," remembered Turret Commander W.E.C. Tait years later, "made cocoa as usual for me and the gun crew during the battle...