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...burned their draft cards in Central Park during the antiwar weekend, the FBI set about tracking down the culprits. Many of them, it turned out, still had their cards; they had been burning licit scraps of notepaper. One readily identifiable card burner was Northwestern University Political Science Researcher Gary Rader, 23, a reservist in an Illinois Special Forces unit, who wore his green beret and Class A uniform while he burned his draft card in Central Park before newspaper cameras. FBI agents arrested Rader last week at his Evanston, Ill., apartment, handcuffed him before they stuck him in a Chicago...
...company from Time Inc. were Rhett Austell, publisher of TIME-LIFE Books, Edgar R. Baker, vice president in charge of research and development, John F. Harvey, vice president and comptroller. New board members from G.E.: Vice Presidents Hershner Cross, Dr. George L. Haller, Dr. Louis T. Rader and General Manager (consumer electronics) Robert C. Wilson. Norman P. Ross, who has been editor of TIME-LIFE Books, was elected a vice president and director of educational research and development. The new board elected Craig T. Senft as a vice president. He will also continue as president of the Silver Burdett...
...electronic computer," says Dr. Louis T. Rader, a vice president of General Electric, "may have a more beneficial potential for the human race than any other invention in history." As viewed by Sir Leon Bagrit, the thoughtful head of Britain's Elliot-Automation, the computer and automation will bring "the greatest change in the whole history of mankind." The public, too, has begun to sense the power of the computer for good and evil. Cartoonists delight in giving computers robotlike stature and minds of their own that like to play tricks on ordinary mortals, and computers have been made...
...marriage has had uneven luck. Remington Rand attracted him because it was such an early leader in the computer field that its Univacs were once synonymous with computers. Like many companies, however, Sperry Rand found it easier to make than to market a good product. Cracks the departing Louis Rader: "Whoever said that if you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door was out of his cotton-picking mind...
...Though its late-model Univac IIIs and 1004s are rated among the best computers in the field, Sperry's Univac division trails in some key areas; General Electric, for example, is well ahead in the promising "process control" computers that can run pipeline systems or steel mills. Under Rader, Univac had made great progress toward closing the gaps, and thus his move to G.E. is a double blow...