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...newcomer who wanders into this scene not knowing what to expect notices first that everyone seems to know everyone else. Dress is plain and runs for both men and women to tractor-fixing clothes, nondesigner jeans and faded flannel shirts hanging out from under jean jackets. There isn't a sequined vest or pair of DayGlo satin Grand Ole Opry overalls in sight...
...Hinsdale, Ill., International Harvester Co., desperately trying to reverse hemorrhaging losses from sagging sales and antiquated factory equipment, uses a building full of computers, memory cores, and cathode-ray tubes to design and program the assembly of its new Series-50 farm tractor. Meanwhile, the computerized streamlining of shop-floor operating procedures has so far helped the company dispose of $800 million worth of inventory, giving the firm new hope of prospering in the high-tech 1980s...
CAD/CAM technology permits production to be organized instead around manufacturing "cells" in which batches of similar parts are turned out by computer-directed machine tools. At International Harvester's Farmall tractor plant in Rock Island, Ill., a group of 69 machine tools and six workers, with support from a four-man maintenance crew, produces tractor clutch housings. Formerly, the job was done by 47 machinists working in three shifts at 32 separate machine tools...
...acre spread near Austin, Reagan's house on his 688-acre California ranch looks like a log cabin ("It is," protests Nancy). No central heat. No wine cellar. Two bedrooms. Three cattle. Six horses. Three McCulloch chain saws (for cutting firewood). One old Jeep. One decrepit tractor. (When a John Deere executive saw Reagan's tractor, he dispatched a salesman to make a deal. The President was told that for $58,000 and his old model, he could get the tractor of his dreams. "Forget it," Reagan answered...
...must have seemed strangely uncomplicated to Harvard officials when the tractor trailer slithered through Boston streets in darkness one morning this August. Carrying the last of six mammoth diesel engines from a South Boston warehouse where they had collected dust for five years, the trailer encountered a small group of Brookline and Mission Hill protestors as it entered Harvard's controversial Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP). There were some black balloons held by the sleepy-eyed outside. There were even two minor arrests. But by daylight, the last engine was behind the plant's gates; in a few hours...