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...little chance that there will ever be a shortage of one constant byproduct of manned-space missions-human waste. During a three-month flight, for example, a crew of three will produce approximately a quarter-ton of solid wastes. What to do with it? Seattle's Rocket Research Corp. offers a practical answer: process the waste and use it as a source of rocket fuel...
...exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution is a solid-state computer of 1957 vintage, the first practical large-scale model ever built. This cybernetic antique served as the guidance system for U.S. ICBMs until 1961 and ticked off more than 300 countdowns. The unit was built by the Burroughs Corp. of Detroit, which, though short on share of market-less than 4% com pared with IBM's 75%-is long on invention, reliability, and lately, profits...
...three years, Hertz Corp., the No. 1 company in the U.S. car-rental field, stood stolidly by while Avis Inc., No. 2, successfully needled away with its "We try harder" advertising campaign. But no longer. Now Hertz, having changed ad agencies, is trying to turn Avis' own theme against it. Typical of the new Hertz ads: "For years, Avis has been telling you Hertz is No. 1. Now we're going to tell...
...Leyland Motor Corp., the Commonwealth's largest producer of heavy trucks, last week made an apparently successful $70-million bid to buy the Rover Co., whose Land Rover sales have been hit by Japanese competition. With 70,000 employees and $840-million-a-year revenue from 10% of the passenger-car and 25% of the commercial-vehicle markets, Leyland-Rover would become Britain's No. 3 automak er, after British Motor Corp. and Ford. Though the marriage seems to be one of necessity. Leyland Chairman Sir William Black says that Rover has been "a glint...
...fashion new materials for educational use. Radio Corp. of America, for example, recently bought Random House (Cerf and his staff retain full editorial control, however). RCA presumably plans to utilize Cerf's textbook division for electronics developments in education...