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...first projects to be handled by Mark IV will be to "read" copies of the Bible under the direction of the Reverend John W. Ellison of Tucson, Arizona. Ellison will spend two weeks supervising the "reading" of 100 ancient manuscripts of the Bible, two at a time. The machine will indicate where words have been added or deleted, as well as differences in spelling and word order...
Mark IV, the computation laboratory's forthcoming mechanical brain, may begin its scientific career by "reading" the Bible with a minister from Tucson...
...Arizona, 45 miles from Tucson, lies the nation's biggest untapped source of copper. It is the 4,411-acre San Manuel field, which geologists estimate contains 460 million tons of ore-enough to last the U.S. for about three years. But it has not been exploited because the low-grade ore would be enormously expensive to mine and process...
When school opened in Tucson, Ariz, this fall, Superintendent Robert D. Morrow had reason to feel uneasy. He had never wanted to be "either a heel or a hero," but heel or hero he was destined to be. Morrow had been trying to get rid of Jim Crow in the city's public schools for the past six months-ever since the state legislature passed a law leaving the decision up to local communities...
Some parents protested hotly against the Morrow campaign, and some even called him up to tell him what a "Communist," "nigger-lover," or "Fascist" they thought he was. None of that bothered Morrow much. What did bother him was what Tucson's parents would say when they found out what he had done with the 19 Negro teachers from the city's Negro schools...