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The 89th Congress has churned out Great Society legislation so efficiently this year that it has sometimes seemed like a precision-tooled machine. But last week the House put on a display of parliamentary absurdity and just plain orneriness that reminded everyone that Congress is, after all, an assemblage of...
New Smells. Packing executives last week were urged to look even further by Dr. Augustus B. Kinzel, president of the National Academy of Engineering. Said Kinzel: "Get away from the idea that a steak is a steak is just a steak.' He suggested that a laser beam instead of...
Perkin-Elmer sells no consumer products, strikes for a balance between Government contracts and sales to U.S. business. Last year the company supplied the Government with $27 million worth of instruments and precision optical equipment, shipped $24 million worth of instruments to U.S. industrial firms, hospitals, research laboratories and universities...
Perkin-Elmer's founder and 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...
The astronauts worked hard in space, performing beyond expectations. When equipment unexpectedly conked out, they demonstrated that man has the capacity to become a celestial mechanic. A sighting device went on the blink; Cooper discovered that the trouble was a short circuit, repaired it with a three-inch-long screwdriver...