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...interested in Hall, not as a Communist, but as an expert on the McCarran Act," claimed Miss Tamara Turner, vice-president pro tem of the student group that asked Hall to speak...
...office that is necessarily equipped with a handy silver spittoon. He takes careful notes during pregame batting and fielding practice. "That way," he says, "I might notice that one of their guys is hurt, or pick up one or two other little things." Like Hutchinson. Houk has a fierce tem per-but he usually keeps it in check. "Temper hurt me a time or two as a player," he says. "I knew it wasn't going to help the club, so I said. 'Well, hell, let's put a rope...
...suit in the first place." For the Justice Department, Miner's decision was a bitter blow, coming as it did two weeks after a Dallas judge had similarly refused the department's attempt to bar the merger of aircraft-making Chance Vought Corp. into Ling-Tem-co Electronics Inc. But at week's end, as the two Chicago banks became one, a Justice Department spokesman coldly warned: "We still plan to go to trial...
Like Wet Hay. McClure's bubble-breathing experience was part of an experiment by the Boeing Airplane Co. in Seattle, which is seeking an oxygen sys| tem that will support human space travelers. Using live algae to recycle the precious oxygen in spaceships is a venerable idea, but it is far easier to accomplish in fiction than in fact. Many space-minded companies have added algologists to their staffs, but Boeing believes it is the first to keep a man alive for a full day on algal oxygen. The original air in McClure's tank would have become...
Helpful ERMA. The Bank of America aided by the Stanford Research Institute' started out by developing what it calls ERMA-Electronic Recording Machine Accounting. General Electric put the sys tem together, hitching components from National Cash Register Co. and Pitney-Bowes to its own computer, which it programed to process checks and do bank bookkeeping. To mark checks for use in the system, the Stanford researchers devised a set of stylized Arabic numerals* printed them in magnetic ink so that no matter how a check is folded or crumpled the numbers can still be read by ERMA. Subsequently...