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...world is medicine yet practiced in this manner. And automation experts insist that it never will be-quite. But at half a dozen U.S. medical and cybernetic research centers, scores of human computers are at work trying to bring the card-shuffling business machines and the electronic computer into more areas of medicine. At System,Development Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif., an eleven-man team under Engineer Charles J. Roach, 38, has figured after a half-year study that no fewer than six areas invite automation. Of greatest direct interest to the patient: taking and "retrieval" of case histories; diagnosis...
Broken Records. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, who has led the industry's fight against higher wages for steelworkers, reported that Big Steel's profits reached record levels of $2.64 per share in the second quarter v. $1.25 in the same quarter last year, raising half-year earnings 96% to yet another record: $4.50 per share for the half-year v. $2.29 last year. Steel sales for the quarter rose to a record $1.4 billion, hiking first-half sales $1.1 billion above last year to a record $2.5 billion...
...with second-quarter profits of $1.59 v. 61/ last year, first-half profits of $2.64 v. $1.13 last year. President Arthur B. Homer reported that Bethlehem's billings of $1.4 billion for the first half also touched new highs; so did production, which was running at 97% of capacity just before the steel strike. From Republic Steel Chairman Charles M. White came another record report to round out the picture: the nation's third largest steel firm ran up quarterly earnings of $2.57 a share v. 98? last year, half-year earnings of $4.28 a share...
...Other half-year earnings (per share...