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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investment and land-development combine. Others started up airlines, banks, insurance companies and scores of smaller businesses ("The poor Chinese," goes a Hawaiian gag, "is the one who washes his own Cadillac"). From the mainland, too, came fresh capital and nien with big ideas. Pink-cheeked Millionaire Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser jolted the Big Five by plunking down $18 million for an apartment-hotel resort called "Hawaiian Village," starting a $350 million "dream city" in Oahu's Kokohead area. Sheraton Hotels took over four splendid Waikiki Beach hotels, including the Royal Hawaiian and Moana, and made them...
Trick Count. The U.S. delegation of 630 was a mishmash of the devout (including Paul Robeson Jr.), the trusting, and the curious. There was also a cadre of professionally coached antiCommunists, including a young American scientist, J. A. Ransahoff, who at a party-line seminar on the atom stole the Red thunder with a facts-and-figures presentation of the U.S. program for the peaceful uses of atomic energy...
...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 and treatment; automated control of a medical procedure, e.g., anesthesia during an operation...
Latest discovered hazard, and potentially the most dangerous yet, was described last week by Physicists E. P. Ney, J. R. Winckler and P. S. Freier of the University of Minnesota, who specialize on observing cosmic rays by means of high-altitude plastic balloons. Last May 10 they heard from astronomers that an unusually powerful flare had erupted on the sun. As they readied their great balloons, a telephone call came from Alaska; Astrophysicist Harold Leinbach was reporting that his radio telescope at College (near Fairbanks) had detected a sudden blackout of radio noise from space. This indicated, said Leinbach, that...
...third quarter." Such profits, he said, must be "the regular order of business" if the industry is to modernize and grow, compete against foreign firms and other materials at home. But the industry's argument did not stem the union's expected attack. Cried Steelworkers Boss David J. McDonald: "The astronomical profit figures completely demolish the excuse the companies have used to force this shutdown. How can they possibly justify a heartless denial of needed benefits to their workers, who have produced this mammoth pile of profits...