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...machine turning out precision aircraft and missile parts; National Cash Register this week marketed a "Post-Tronic" banking machine that electronically posts depositors' checks, virtually eliminates the possibility of a clerical error. In another few months one Midwest state will even field-test an electronic control system to steer and otherwise operate cars in a stretch of superhighway...
WASHINGTON, March 28--The United States counseled American ships today to steer clear of the Suez Canal...
...ticking in the Middle East went on, the onlooking U.N. was not living up to the worst forebodings. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, required to work within a narrow mandate, was showing an imaginative ability to steer things towards a settlement. The U.N.'s worst offender, Soviet Russia, last week tried to push through a mischievous resolution investigating U.S. "aggressive actions" in the Middle East, and though the U.S. itself cheerfully voted for the resolution in the steering committee, to show that it had nothing to hide, the proposal was defeated 8 to 6 in committee...
...down on the number of student casualties and parental disappointments, city after city has organized elaborate counseling programs to try to identify the college material early and to steer students to the schools best suited to them. At the same time, private prep schools are trying to persuade ambitious fathers not to think only in terms of big-name colleges. But, says Headmaster W. Gray Mattern Jr. of Wilbraham (Mass.) Academy, "It's difficult to convince the third generation Harvardman that his obviously unqualified son just won't be admitted. After a while, you get tired of talking...
...Polaris will have a solid propellant. It may be launched directly out of a special compartment in the submarine, or it may be released and allowed to float upward before its main motor ignites. Perhaps the submarine will have raised some sort of antenna above the surface to steer the missile on its course by radio after it has risen from...