IBM 1620 boosts newspaper type setting speed and efficiency
The IBM 1620 can set and justify 12 000 11-Pica lines per hour, storing copy in memory then spacing and hyphenating to fill lines. It feeds output to linecasting machines with allotting for up to 20 tape punches. Newspapers report substantial savings and faster late-copy printing. trials show Oklahoma dailies and New York Daily News adopting the system.
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Australia
I.B.M
R .E. Clement
U S Woman Eyes Space Role as Vostok VI News Breaks
St Paul report shows Jerri Cobb a leading American woman aviator announcing formal aviation to become an astronaut. The timing coincides with the Soviet Union informing the U S of four space launches including Vostok VI carrying the world’s first woman astronaut.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
A.A.P
Jerri Cobb
United States
Soviet Union
Ecuador Junta Bans Communists After Coup
A two day old military junta outlawed the Communist Party and blamed leftist extremists for civil disorder. Junta member Colonel Oarco Gandara said power could last two years until a decree reform plan. A curfew was imposed as clashes injured 17 and killed three, including two soldiers and a civilian.
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Quito
Ecuador
Communist Party
Oarco Gandara
Umta
Tar
Carlos Julio Arosemena
Arosemena
Panama City
Woomera Box Lost on U K Railway
A Jodrell Bank scientist warns the loss could end four years of research as a container with valuable scientific gear vanishes en route from Woomera to Jodrell Bank. The box, 19 by 17 inches, was misaddressed near Leeds and last seen June 12.
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Jodrell Bank
R. C. Jennison
Woomera
Byair
London
British Railways
Britain
Leeds
Daily Mail
The
Jennison
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Elizabeth Arden
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Queanbeyan
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Warren Eric Hawkins
Raphael
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