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From baking bread to making steel, the most promising area of automation is computer control of factory production lines. Last week two major space-age firms got together to form the newest and biggest company in a rapidly growing field. The Martin Marietta Corp. and Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. set up a separate company called the Bunker-Ramo Corp. to design and install computerized assembly lines for the industrial market...
...continues to have his say, President Johnson's basic concern will be over how the U.S. economy can quicken its growth. The conventional answer is that more exciting new products must be found to spark consumer demand and to start up new industries. In the opinion of Simon Ramo, vice chairman of space-age Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, "we do not have that kind of rapid, exciting growth in new products for civilian use that our scientific base would lead us to expect...
...growing debate over research, U.S. businessmen are sharply divided. Some major defense contractors, such as Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Vice Chairman Simon Ramo, argue that the romantic challenge of space and missilery is likely to produce a broad base of research that will eventually benefit U.S. business. But many businessmen find themselves agreeing with President Kennedy, who admitted in his economic report to the nation this year: "We have paid a price by sharply limiting the scarce scientific and engineering resources available to the civilian sectors of the American economy...
...into nose cones, but the manufacturer, Corning Glass Works, denies it. Moreover, "fallout" seems to be shrinking as defense gear becomes increasingly esoteric. "Complexity breeds specialization-you find out everything there is to know about a progressively smaller area-and that is almost the opposite of invention," says Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Vice President Simon ("Si") Ramo, who bossed the original Atlas ICBM program...
...Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, once all space work, has diversified so that it is now half auto and aircraft parts. It is prime contractor on the Orbiting Geophysical Observatory...