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...even the dissidents agree that the day is not too far off when man will have a valid function in space. As instrumented spacecraft get more and more sophisticated, it becomes more and more difficult to transmit, record, digest and interpret their food of raw data. The best solution at present is to put small computers in the spacecraft. One kind, called a "Tele-bit," translates the data from the instruments into figures that are sufficiently simple to send over the transmitter and can go directly into a big ground computer. But when spacecraft begin to work at such distances...
...active leadership after a stroke. No sooner had Brower taken over than he faced a passel of trouble. Revlon, Inc. pulled out its $7,000,000 account. Then, to avoid trouble with its $17 million American Tobacco account, BBDO resigned its $1,500,000 account with Reader's Digest, after an unfavorable cigarette article appeared. "Being an intellectual uninterested in money," quips Brower, "I resigned the one that billed the least...
...conferences, reports the Jewish Digest, these were some of the questions discussed...
Scattershot Blasts. The Douglas committee's majority report, packed with economist's gobbledygook and lofty theory, was hardly suited for the political stump. But the Democratic Digest gave party spokesmen a free-swinging indictment of the Administration for use in handy quotation. Economic growth "under Eisenhower-Nixon has been miserably slow," trumpeted the Digest. What gains the country did achieve "have heavily favored the moneylenders as compared with farmers, small businessmen and workers." Republican "budget-first fiscal policies" have callously ignored the aged, the infirm, the unemployed, the farmers, the jammed schools and the blighted cities...
...Digest's scattergun criticism, the weighty economic report and Douglas' crusade against the plutogogues shattered any Republican dreams of coasting home in 1960 on the magic carpet of widely shared U.S. wellbeing. A major debate on the economy was abuilding; before it was ended, the G.O.P. might be hard pressed to prove that prosperity is more satisfying than Democratic promises...