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The article reports that Measurex Corp. installs 110 process control computer systems in the papermaking industry in the U.S. from 1969 up to 1973. The company promises the paper industries a production cost cut of 8 percent, uniformity and increasing speed in production, and fewer wastes. Moreover, it also provides the history of the company and its success in the industry.

The article focuses on the repair and expansion programs which are keeping technicians at the International General Electric (IGE) busy with the installation of electrical equipment, overhauling run-down equipment and surveying war damage in ten countries. It states that IGE's biggest foreign assignment is the reconstruction of Dnepr power station in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Details regarding the projects of technicians in other countries such also discussed.

The article presents a list of congresses and conventions on computer science in the year 1968. Some of them include: The Atlantic Systems Conference, to be held in the New York City in the month of April; the 10th Symposium on Process Automation, to be held in Fullerton, California, in the month of April; the 1968 Spring Joint Computer Conference, to be held in the Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the month of April and May; and the Workshop on Installation Management, to be held in Washington D.C., in the month of June.

The article presents comments of various political activists on issues related to war and the U.S. politics. It is said that war is not murder of a civilian enemy population. The first objective of war is peace. The second and immediate objective is to conquer the people, impose high strategy on their political ideas, use their industrial installations for the government's purposes and make the conquered enemy work for the country. Citizens protest that one has to be a Democrat or Republican or one cannot vote in the city elections, which is going to be held on November 8, 1949.

The article offers information on the installation of surveillance cameras at the Times Square which is the busiest street in New York City. Times Square integrated television cameras to monitor crimes with stationary cameras to provide a picture of the 45th Street west of Broadway which is a big street for theaters at Shubert Alley along the Broadway. The cameras were installed to protect the Great White Way from danger of legitimate theaters and restaurants from pornographic movie shows and cheap eateries in the modern city. Moreover, the surveillance cameras at Times Square allowed police officers to control borderline crime of vigilant American Civil Liberties Union.

The article examines the impact of the six-month war in Europe on the performance of the business in the U.S. It indicates that commodity prices have increased from 140 to 16, based on the Moody's Index. Moreover, it mentions that the said war has improved the American business and economy which resulted to the construction of building factories and installation of machinery.

The article reports on the installations of radiant heating systems at Sarco Manufacturing Corp. in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and at Hewitt Rubber Co. in Buffalo, New York.

The article reports on the move of American Foundry Equipment Co. to install a new system that has an abrasive pipe scaler to improve the speed of removing heat-treat scale from seamless steel pipe in the plant of National Supply Co. in the U.S.