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...Howitt is correct ("Tech Talk," Apr. 26) in noting that preemptive multitasking "has existed for a long time," but he omits mentioning IBM's Time Sharing System (TSS) Model 360/67, which used a multitask environment, and paging of memory to create virtual memory. It too was created in the 1960s...
Before the panel discussion, President Kennedy was shown speaking in a collection of video clips from the 1960s...
...There was a faith in the 1950s and 1960s thateconomic growth would benefit all Americans,...Butfrom 1979 to today, economic growth has not beenequal for all income groups," Reich said...
...Adjusted for inflation, the top 20 percent ofincomes have increased by 18 percent... [while]the bottom 20 percent have seen a 11 percentdecline," Reich said. "Unlike the 1950s and 1960s,we didn't grow together, but we grew apart...
DIED. OTTO FRIEDRICH, 66, writer; of lung cancer; in Manhasset, New York. Boston-born Friedrich first hit his stride during his 1960s tenure at the Saturday Evening Post. During his subsequent years in the pages of Time and in his own nimbly crafted nonfiction, Friedrich emerged as an elegant explicator of just about everything: Superman, insanity, the pop art of Hollywood, the high art of pianist Glenn Gould, the collapse of German democracy, the demise of a rose garden...