Word: digester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accompanied by armed militiamen, officers of Fidel Castro's government printing office last week in Havana seized the printing facilities of a Cuban publisher who printed two "Yankee imperialist" magazines: the Latin American editions of TIME and the Reader's Digest. Aware that such a move was imminent, TIME production managers had already made emergency printing arrangements with the Atlanta firm of W. R. Bean & Son (which was used to such emergencies: it printed TIME'S Latin American edition 24 times in 1958 when Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista shut down the Havana plant in displeasure at TIME...
...newest wonder of the electronic age is a machine that can read and digest and retain what it reads-even if it takes no special pleasure in curling up with a good book. Known in industry as the optical scanner, it operates roughly on the principle of the human eye, has already earned the obvious Orwellian nickname...
...collection of condensed novels, such as those issued by Reader's Digest, belonging in this class for the same reason that a beef bouillon cube...
...Examiner last week: BOYD'S CAMPING JAUNT EXPOSED. Below, the Examiner reported that the Boyds had disappeared, jubilantly printed a description of their primitive campsite: "Kitchen matches. Shells from fresh eggs. Empty cans which once contained spaghetti. Watermelon rinds. July issue of the Reader's Digest. So much toilet tissue that some of it had been used to start a fire." The Examiner cautiously refrained from drawing any snide conclusions. But the evening News-Call Bulletin, jointly owned by Hearst and Scripps-Howard, was less kind: "The Examiner published voluminous type and pictures to imply that Boyd...
...around the nation, Tech Ops has joined with United Aircraft to develop a semi-automatic weather forecasting network for the Air Force, the Federal Aviation Agency and the Weather Bureau at a cost of more than $100 million. Linking a series of computers in major cities, it will digest temperature, pressure and cloud formation data, come up with speedy and accurate forecasts...