Word: corpe
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...manner. And automation experts insist that it never will be-quite. But at half a dozen U.S. medical and cybernetic research centers, scores of human computers are at work trying to bring the card-shuffling business machines and the electronic computer into more areas of medicine. At System,Development Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif., an eleven-man team under Engineer Charles J. Roach, 38, has figured after a half-year study that no fewer than six areas invite automation. Of greatest direct interest to the patient: taking and "retrieval" of case histories; diagnosis and treatment; automated control of a medical...
...Small. At Chrysler Corp., hardest hit of the big automakers in last year's sales slump, the comeback was equally bouncy. Saddled with a loss for both the second quarter and the entire year...
...MILLION BET on success of Detroit's small cars was placed by Hertz Corp., which is buying 4,500 of Big Three's new models as a starter for its car rental service, will charge cheaper rates than for normal-sized cars...
WHIRLPOOL CORP. Half-year earnings were $1.50 a share, nearly three times last year's figure...
Died. Eugene Meyer, 83, publisher, board chairman of the Washington Post and Times-Herald, who served his country with distinction: governor of the Federal Reserve Board (1930-33), first chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. (1932), first president of the World Bank (1946); in Washington. At 57, Meyer capped a successful career as a financier by buying the bankrupt Post (1933 daily circulation: 62,000), over the years strengthened editorial policy, bought (1954) from Colonel Robert R. McCormick the Post's biggest Washington rival and political antithesis, the Times-Herald, boosted the daily circulation of the combined papers...