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...which a cascade travels. Nonetheless, Maine was the only New England state completely unaffected by the blackout. It was able to cut off its single, 115-kilovolt line to CANUSE in time. The Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland system escaped because its seven connections to CANUSE blew in time. Con Edison had no automatic cutoff system that protected it in the emergency...
Last week they got their answer - but in a manner so indirect and ambiguous that it took the nation a week to fathom what the President's real feelings and intentions were. Convinced that one of John Kennedy's greatest mistakes as President was his bitter, demagogic con frontation with the steel industry, John son managed to show his strong dis approval of price rises without uttering a single word in public...
...exaggerated than just about any other aspect of the U.S. economy. It conjures up visions of depression, poverty and helplessness for vast numbers of people - and, indeed, it means that for some. The facts, though, do not really fit the fears. Unemployment is not only dwindling steadily but is con- siderably less acute than some statistics make...
...data cards, count receipts or keep track of airline reservations from distant offices. Time sharing goes much beyond that. It links up as many as 500 widely separated customers with one large computer, lets each feed its own problems to the machine by tele phone through a simple typewriter con sole. The time-sharing computer can an- swer questions in microseconds, is able to shift back and forth swiftly among the diverse programming needs of many companies, small and large...
...prepares contract proposals, and Arthur D. Little solves problems in applied mechanics through a time-sharing system run by Cambridge's Bolt Beranek & Newman. An other time-sharing firm, Keydata, will soon take up the problems of Boston distributors of liquor, books, automo- bile parts and building materials. Con trol Data, which introduced two time-shared computers last week, will open the U.S.'s biggest sharing center in Los Angeles next year. General Electric al ready has 88 customers, last week added a New York center to its service centers in Phoenix and Valley Forge...