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Many of the age-tarnished hotels were ensuring themselves rush business by switching from the European to the American plan. To sweeten the deal, some even threw in free wiener roasts, sightseeing trips and lessons in dancing...
...widest latitude, Bell Telephone Laboratories, the $113 million-a-year research arm for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and Western Electric, has struck some of the biggest pay lodes in industrial history. In 1948 Bell Mathematician Claude Shannon, projecting earlier studies by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Norbert Wiener, published Communication Theory, a complex mathematical scheme for measuring information content in communications, as well as evaluating the performance of systems that transmit words and pictures. The theory opened new horizons in telephone and TV transmission, has already found its way into the Air Force's Distant Early Warning...
...when automation was just getting under way, Norbert Wiener, M.I.T. mathematics professor and pioneer in the development of automated machines, forecast that automation would reduce wage earners to "slave labor," and bring on an economic crash that would make "the Depression of the '30s seem a pleasant joke." Now Wiener has changed his mind: man is becoming automation's master, not its slave. He cheerfully concedes that automation is "increasing man's leisure, enriching his spiritual life...
Both Lyman and Freeman belong to the chess club and have been playing the game for over ten years. Malcolm Wiener '57, president of the chess club said, "On the basis of Lyman and Freeman's showing in this tournament, we will enter next year's team intercollegiate championships." (The intercollegiates in chess alternate from an individual tournament one year to a team championship the next...
...SELF-BETRAYED, by Joseph Wechsberg (301 pp.; Knopf; $3.95). Czech-born Author Wechsberg often patrols the same prose beat as Tyrolean-born Ludwig Bemelmans; on it the major misdemeanors are underdone Wiener Schnitzel and overdone Central European whimsy. Wechsberg strays off his favorite beat in his second novel, a somber, loose-jointed documentary on the rise and fall of a big party wheel in Communist Czechoslovakia. Wechsberg's Communist hero-heel is named Bruno Stern, but his career closely parallels that of the late Rudolf Slansky, powerful, Moscow-trained secretary general of the Czech Communist Party who was purged...