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59th Year, No. 36
Friday, November 3, 1961
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A stimulating and exciting job
Three years ago, Mary Bayer graduated from Bryn Mawr. Today, as an IBM System Service Representative, she helps business management apply IBM equipment to their accounting and record keeping functions.
"When a company needs assistance on a new installation of equipment or wants help in improving the efficiency of an established one, I work closely with the sales representative to accomplish whatever is required.
"As a part of my job, I meet everybody from bankers to engineers . . . from company presidents to switchboard operators. I find myself working in every kind of business . . . advertising agencies, insurance companies, trucking firms . . nearly anything you can name. The variety of my assignments makes this a very stimulating and exciting job."
Training program
What background did Mary Bayer have for system service work? "Before I joined the company, I had no technical training," she recalls. "I came to IBM directly from college where I received a liberal arts degree, with the usual exposure to the physical sciences. All the technical knowledge required was secured through the company's comprehensive training program."
The training begins in one of seventeen Education Centers located in the larger cities of the country. The first eight weeks are devoted to the operating principles, capacities and functions of such equipment as calculators and accounting machines. The second phase of training consists of approximately four months of actual assignments in customers' offices under the guidance of more experienced systems people. The remainder of the training program is spent learning about more advanced equipment, along with additional practical experience in customers' offices.
A wide variety of assignments
"I've been a System Service Representative for nearly two years now." Mary Bayer says, "and I still find the work as interesting and challenging as when I first started. This is one of the wonderful things about my job. In the course of a single month, for instance, I worked on a bank assignment, installing a new, fast system for handling commercial credit. I was stationed at NBC Television during the election campaign compiling election returns. And I helped a hospital solve its in-patient billing problems."
How does she go about performing an assignment? "First of all," she explains, "I study the company's operations and system objectives. How can the company achieve the degree of efficiency it is seeking . . . by extending the application of its present equipment or by installing newer, more advanced equipment?" After determining the "how," she assists the salesman in drafting a proposal outlining the method, procedures and equipment that would achieve the desired results. If the company accepts the proposal, then she follows through and shows the customer how to make more effective use of his new system. This may involve many things . . . setting up new methods to handle the flow of paper work, changing procedures for more efficient machine processing, or teaching machine operations to customer personnel.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Army was ready today to accept the resignation of Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, who is ending a 30-year service career in protest against military "censorship."
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System Service Representatives are important members of the IBM sales group. Their assignment is to apply IBM's vast resources of systems knowledge to the operations of business, industry, science and government. Their goal is to keep the customer advised of the most profitable use of IBM methods and equipment. System Service Representatives work with all types of IBM equipment ranging from simple punched card systems to large-scale electronic data processing systems. A leader in the electronic computer field, IBM supports its customer service group with the latest, most up-to-date products created in IBM's world-wide network of research and development facilities.
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Excellent training programs are continuously in operation to back up these products with the methods and systems know how to insure their most effective use
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Mary Bayer's future presents varied and mission said interesting opportunities. She could be low-to-intercome an instructor at an IBM Education than a mega-Center or even a Manager of an Education Center. Many System Service Rep. the Soviet resentatives hold responsible positions in with last the company's headquarters in various-plus exploareas such as Personnel, Advertising, to speculate Market Research and Analysis, Producte come across Planning, and Methods and Procedures. experiments "The electronics computer field is one of up. the fastest-expanding areas in America today," she says, "and there's no telling air, they pre-visualize a career that holds more potential around in the for the college graduate."
San Antonio, said he had no further comment on his resignation because his statement to the sub committee speaks for itself. But he added that he agreed with Gen. Douglas MacArthur that executive power has become so strong that military men are being treated ruthlessly for speaking their minds.
"It will be my purpose now, as a civilian, to attempt to do what I have found it no longer possible to do in uniform."
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara later testified that Walker had attempted to influence the votes of his troops in the 1960 election. He said the General made "inflammatory and derogatory statements" against former President Truman, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
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In the past it has taken about six months to prepare the proving ground and organize a task force to carry out an ambitious test program. But sources said it now could be done in two or three months if necessary.
KENNEDY SAID in his statement that if tests are resumed, the United States would hold fallout to an "absolute minimum." He said this country had no intention of exploding anything like a 50-megaton bomb.
WEAPONS EXPERTS predicted that, if Kennedy gives the go-ahead, a test would be conducted next year of a Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile with powerful nuclear warhead.
Other tests, they said, might include experiments to increase the power of the Polaris, Minuteman and other missile warheads without increasing their bulk and weight.
These experts said this country also might proof-test battlefield weapons as the Davy Crockett Atomic Bazooka, and conduct scientific tests aimed ultimately at producing the Neutron bomb.
The Chief Executive denounced Russia's "campaign of fear" but again offered to sign a nuclear test ban treaty so long as it provides for adequate inspection and control.
"In the meantime, as a matter of prudence, we shall make necessary preparations for such tests so as to be ready in case it becomes necessary to conduct them," he said.
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A SPOKESMAN for the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) said: "We will proceed to get ready as fast as possible. If a decision is made to resume atmospheric testing, it should not take long to begin."
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which swings around carrying two different sets, will be full with Mame's Beekman Place apartment on one side and Jackson Beauregard's country estate on the other.
SLATS ATTACHED TO OUTLINE BOARDS will enable the stage crew to make quick scene changes by unhooking the slats' hinges. Scenes will be flown in from the ceiling via cables controlled by a panel backstage. Props with wheels will be used extensively as the stage crew must make 23 scene changes, 16 major set switches and a host of costume changes.
In addition to the set changes, two nylon-thin curtains will create two scenes at the lip of the stage. All the stage space is being used.
A PARTY MEMBER came up with another question about the UP platform. He asked Cathey what the party was going to do about the new "off shoot of the NSA?" (He was probably referring to the newly created Committee for Effective Student Government. Eight members of this committee are former members of the NSA.)
Cathey, a member of the NSA last year, replied:
"These people need to be together. They probably deserve each other."
He added, laughing, that this was not a part of the UP platform.
HOMECOMING QUEEN ANNOUNCED—This morning at a pep rally in front of Strong Hall the 1961 Homecoming queen and her attendants were announced. They are, from left to right, Leslie Gail Coover, Junction City senior, attendant; Mary Nan Scamman, Tarkio, Mo., junior, queen; and Lawalta Dean Heyde, Shawnee Mission junior, attendant.