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...citizens who have had their drivers' licenses revoked for drunken driving or who have been in a fatal crash are listed in a master file, against which the computer can check any new license application and flash a reply within 24 hours to the state that sends it. Although there is a move on to broaden the machine's purview, present law prevents the computer from registering any other offense (parking, running red lights, etc.), and subsequent acquittals, or other altered court judgments are caught by interstate exchange of records. So far, only the District of Columbia, Missouri...
Gilt Monument. The Fisher fortune grew so large that the brothers were rumored to have dropped a cool $3 billion in the 1929 crash; it is estimated to be about $500 million even today. Their influence at G.M. began to decline after Fred and Charles resigned in 1934. Charles concentrated on managing the vast assets of the family investment company, filled his mansion with heavily carved furniture and valuable paintings, and in later years amused himself with a thoroughbred stable in Kentucky. Aside from the millions of bodies still turned out every year by G.M.'s Fisher division...
...reasons for optimism. Substantial progress has been made in the central highlands, where U.S. Special Forces teams have molded 150,000 montagnard tribesmen into a tough, well-trained jungle force that is effectively harassing Viet Cong supply lines from Communist North Viet Nam. The government has embarked on a crash program to construct some 12,000 "strategic hamlets." fortified villages where the peasants will be guarded against Viet Cong attacks by trained, well-armed militiamen. Already 9,750,000 people?65% of the population?have been settled in the 7,500 hamlets that have been built...
Underground Testing. A Soviet crash program to build and equip underground test facilities could enable them to develop U.S.-style smaller, high-yield nuclear weapons. Because they have more to learn from below-ground testing than the U.S., the Russians have more to gain by an intensive underground testing program...
Died. George Whitney, 77, financier, knowledgeable partner of J. P. Morgan between the wars and first president of J. P. Morgan, Inc. from 1940 to 1950, a polished Bostonian who came out of investigations into the stock market crash with a clean slate (unlike his brother Richard, former president of the Stock Exchange, who was convicted of embezzlement), after World War II started Morgan on diversification that led to its 1959 merger with Guaranty Trust; of a pulmonary emphysema (see MEDICINE); in Manhattan...