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...CHARLES MOSHER (R., OHIO...
Seated inside his 11-ft.-tall brainchild, Mechanical Engineer Ralph Mosher moved his legs and arms and sent the 3,000-lb., four-legged mastodon lumbering across the floor at General Electric's Schenectady plant. As Mosher flexed his arms, the monster climbed a stack of heavy timbers to pose like a circus elephant with one foreleg held in the air. A flick of Mosher's wrist swung a 6½-ft. metal leg in an arc and sent the timbers flying. Another flick and the foreleg playfully kicked sand at watching newsmen...
Thus last week, Engineer Mosher introduced CAM, G.E.'s "Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine." Unlike the usual robot, the walking machine has limbs that respond to the actual movements of its human operator's arms and legs. Driven by hydraulic pressure and controlled by servomechanisms, the metal muscles exert far more force than their human counterparts. But they are attached to a sensitive feedback system that gently lets the handler "feel" what the metal limbs are doing...
Wrestling in the IAB, the two teams traded decisions through the 167-pound class, until a pair of consecutive victories by Howie Chatterton (177) and Howie Freedman (191) wrapped it up for the Crimson. Chatterton, frustrated in his attempts to pin Joel Mosher, settled for a 20-3 decision...
With Allis-Chalmers' $850 million in annual sales, the deal, if it goes through, stands to raise Signal's sales to $2.3 billion a year. Before Shumway, now 40, a pipe-smoking ex-Marine (and nephew of Founder-Chairman Samuel B. Mosher), became president in 1964, sales were $444 million. Vowing to look into "anything that's well managed and in a growth industry," Shumway is well on his way toward making his company-whatever its eventual name-one of the nation's hugest corporations...