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...onetime subordinate with whom he has long been on bad terms, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur last week extended a small olive branch. Before a meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers (see BUSINESS & FINANCE), MacArthur, now chairman of the board of Remington Rand, urged "firm support of the new Administration," and expressed the hope that "our respected President-elect" might safely and successfully accomplish "his self-appointed task" in Korea. The onetime U.N. commander also indicated that he might be able to give Ike a hand. Said he: "While it is well known that my own views have...
...those who rushed to Albertynsville had ever before set foot in the Negro shantytowns barnacled on to the gold-rich Rand hills. Stumbling through the debris, oftentimes unaware in the darkness whether the man beside them was white or black, the whites learned, painfully and humbly, how black South Africa lives. Some fetched water from filth-encrusted boreholes that had served the whole of Albertynsville; others, ladling out Red Cross soup, porridge and stew to matchstick-legged Negro children, discovered that never in their lives had these children tasted anything so nourishing. Said one white rescuer afterward: "The place...
...last few years freshmen may have been disappointed in the performance of the entertainers. In 1951, stripper Sally Rand refused to live up to her act and left the stage in tears. Last year, singer Helen O'Connell could not sing because of a prohibition clause in her contract...
...detect instantly any significant trends in the voting, CBS has arranged to use Univac, an all-electronic automatic computer known familiarly as the "Giant Brain." Because it is too big (25,000 Ibs.) to be moved to Manhattan, CBS will train a TV camera on the machine at Remington Rand's offices in Philadelphia. This week, and for the rest of the month, a staff of researchers is feeding 1944 and 1948 election results of each state into the Giant Brain. With all this material digested and memorized, the machine will be able on election night to respond every...
...Edward A. Shils, professor of social sciences at the University of Chicago and consultant to the Air Force's ultra-secret Rand Corporation, leads off with a long and bitter analysis of the McCarran situation: "A very large number of distinguished European scientists, almost all of them anti-Communist and deeply devoted to the freedom in which scientific truth is sought and discovered, have been frustrated in their efforts to come to the United States to share their knowledge with their American colleagues. [Sometimes] their applications for visas have been .. . finally granted, but only after delays so long that...