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When lean, handsome William Remington, Commerce Department economist, was accused of being a Communist back in 1948, he defended himself with such injured but manly firmness that he won what seemed to be vindication of a sort. The top U.S. loyalty review board sent him back to his $10,330-a-year job. The New Yorker ran a 24-column article about his ordeal. Meanwhile, Remington sued for $100,000 and got an out-of-court settlement from the network and sponsor of a television program on which onetime Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley had affirmed her accusations-that...
Last spring a federal grand jury in Manhattan decided that William Remington's denials were hollow after all, and indicted him on a charge of perjury. Last week, as he went to trial in the Manhattan federal courtroom where Alger Hiss had faced a similar charge, Defendant Remington found that the prosecution had more than the testimony of Elizabeth Bentley to back its charge. The prosecution's first important witness was Remington's divorced wife...
Frankenstein Monster? Mathematician Wiener had often said this before, and been pooh-poohed as an alarmist. Last week he was not laughed at. Allen N. Scares, vice president and general manager of Remington Rand, Inc., told of a machine, UNIVAC, manufactured by his company, that can do most of the numerical tasks now performed by flesh & blood clerks. In computing payroll checks, for instance, it "reads" (at 10,000 characters per second) two magnetic tapes with numbers coded on them. One tape carries all the data about each employee: his wage rate, tax status, pension deductions, etc. The other carries...
...many clerks UNIVAC would replace Scares did not say. He was confident that Remington Rand had not created a "Frankenstein [monster] which can turn upon us and wreck the very foundations of our society. History has demonstrated that there is an ultimate good in every new tool . . . The acceptance is gradual as the new tool proves its worth. It has never occurred as a sudden change...
...your Oct. 16 Art section, Texas' Tom Lea was compared with such oldtime Southwesterners as Charles Russell and Frederic Remington...