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Show Ex-S. L. Newsman Describes Atlas Guidance System Whether it be guiding intercontinental inter-continental ballistic missiles or guiding industry, speed, accu-racvy accu-racvy and availability of infor- and fuel. Kizer quoted an Air Force official of-ficial as crediting the Atlas guidance guid-ance system, developed jointly . by Burroughs and General Electric, Elec-tric, with the success of the satellite satel-lite operation. Originally scheduled sched-uled to circle the globe for about 20 days, the Atlas, launched on Dec. 18, is now believed to have . life until about Feb. 1. Kizer, former Salt Lake newsman, news-man, addressed a joint meeting of the Salt Lake Rotary Club and the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, the Salt Lake Ad " Club and the Salt Lake Kiwanis Club. I have never in my life thought things out, nor have I known anybody who ever did. I have always had to live them out, thinking as I went along. Carl Van Doren. mation is the keynote in the space age. This was the theme of three talks Ken Kizer, member of the public relations staff of Burroughs Bur-roughs Corp Detroit, gave to members of Salt Lake civic clubs this week. "Successful businessmen must know now, not tomorrow or next week' Kizer said. Burroughs, the maker of the Atlas ICBM ground guidance computer, is a world-wide leader in research, development and production of business machines, data processing process-ing systems and large scale computers. com-puters. Discussing the Atlas satellite now hurtling around the world every 101 minutes, he said it was the cn"y satellite steered into orbit. All others, including the Rurslan "niks," were "kicked"; into oibit using extra engines |