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...packers who are using it to transform basic operation. The biggest change has come about in in the production and marketing of processed meats --51;sausages, hams, frankfurters and lunch meats- which account for about a third of the total market. One machine, for example, can now grind out 30,000 hot dogs an hour, all of a uniform weight and length for better cost control. Another, guided by computer punch cards, can chop up huge chunks of meat., frozen or fresh, to supply 1,000 Ibs. of meat paste every four minutes. Still others turn out smoked...
...chairman is Richard S. Perkin, 58, whose company has made him a millionaire 25 times over. As a youthful Manhattan investment banker with a passion for amateur astronomy, Perkin and a friend named Charles Elmer in 1938 opened a small shop in a converted Jersey City rathskeller to grind precision lenses, mirrors and prisms for telescopes. When World War II came, the fledgling company suddenly found itself designing the optics for bombsights, aerial cameras, range finders and submarine periscopes...
...current University of Washington Law Review, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas chides U.S. law reviews for not identifying "special pleaders who fail to disclose that they are not scholars but rather people with axes to grind." Douglas proposes "an editorial policy that puts in footnote No. 1 the relevant affiliations of the author...
Between these two extremes, much has already been achieved. Dozens of libraries are using data-processing machines to record book purchases, to keep track of the books that are lent, and even to grind out overdue notices. But that kind of automation mainly helps the librarian. More significant automation is aimed at helping the reader and researcher discover precisely what information is available. Uncounted millions of dollars are wasted annually by scientists repeating research that someone else has already painstakingly carried out and published. An odd medical fact tucked away in a periodical might save a life if the right...
...room," lays out each episode. Five junior writers then turn their scenarios into finished scripts. None of the eight writers is over 35; only two earn less than $1,000 a week. Expensive Trappings. But they have to work to stay in that bracket. The cameras grind away on the back lot at 20th Century-Fox in Hollywood filming three half-hour episodes a week-more than the average movie crew shoots in a month. Thus the production is less polished than a feature film and sometimes barely distinguishable from the commercials Nevertheless, should ratings and sponsorship warrant, the staff...