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...Cramer is a dreamer. Six years ago, while president of his own oil company in Needham, he suddenly became interested in human communications systems. Now, at age forty, Cramer has developed a technique of recording the spoken word that has revolutionized everything from education for the blind to the frozen food industry...
...small office in Larsen Hall, cluttered with graphs, tapes and electronic equipment, H. Leslie Cramer seems more the mad scientist than the Ed School Ph.D. candidate. It is here that Cramer perfected a process to compress speech by deleting small word segments. Previous experimenters had attempted to speed speech by retaping it at a faster rate -- producing only unintelligible Donald Duck gabblings. But Cramer's process enables the listener to hear and comprehend up to 1000 words per minute...
...technique itself is relatively uncomplicated -- bits of syllables are arbitrarily discarded by a special electromagnetic speech compressor machine. Cramer has found, through extensive experimentation, that the ideal "discard interval" is 14 milliseconds, or only 14/1000 of every second of recorded speech. Yet the result is good comprehension at rates up to 3 times as fast as normal conversation...
...higher corporate orbit goes U.S. Astronaut John Glenn, using a 12-oz. bottle of Royal Crown Cola as a launch vehicle. Royal Crown's vice president for corporate development, Glenn last week was also named chair man of the company's international subsidiary. He and Morgan J. Cramer, a former president of P. Lorillard Co. (tobacco) and now R. C. International's president, aim to increase foreign sales 25% next year. Other U.S. soft-drink makers are also training some of their highest-priced executive and promotional talent on the foreign market, whose growth rate will soon...
...Morgan J. Cramer, 59, moved from P. Lorillard Co., where, until six weeks ago, he was chairman, of the international division, to Royal Crown Cola, where he becomes president of its international subsidiary. Cramer's switch from puffs to pop was described as amicable. In his 35-year career with Lorillard, Cramer concentrated on the company's exports, retained his interest in overseas business after he became president in 1961 and chief executive a year later. Lorillard's greatest sales (95%) and biggest headaches, though, are in the domestic field, where its onetime fast-selling Kents have...