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...onetime $100-a-month U.C.L.A. logic instructor who is equally adept in academese and computerese, Palevsky aims to keep S.D.S. at that nimble size where "we need optimize our strategy only in a small sector of the market." S.D.S. may already be growing out of that league. Last December the company delivered the first of its Sigma family of realtime, third-generation computers. The most complex, Sigma 7, costs up to $1,000,000, can serve more than 200 users simultaneously on a time-sharing basis. Sigma thus represents a big step into highly competitive commercial data processing...
...French horn: The class of the brass, he is refined and erudite, is one of the highest-paid members of the orchestra and acts like it. Unlike the other brass players, he has never known the camaraderie of playing in dance bands, and tends to stand aloof. He is adept at organizing strikes and protest movements...
...taught political science and economics at Harvard for nearly 20 years, interspersed his teaching with government service, ranging from World War II's War Production Board to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. From 1961 until early 1966, when he moved back to Washington, Gordon was an adept ambassador to Brazil. He will leave State in June, accompanied by President Johnson's blessing as a man with "a rare combination of experience and scholarship, idealism and practical judgment...
What is the technology gap? How real is it? Commerce Secretary John Connor, an adept at soothing utterances, suggests that it could more accurately be called an "industrial disparity." Whatever the name, Europe shows real enough symptoms of the condition. Everywhere about him, the European sees American products and processes. When a Frankfurt businessman rises in the morning, he may well reach for a Gillette razor blade, Colgate toothpaste, and hair lotion that comes in a bottle made by an Owens-Illinois subsidiary. After he downs his Maxwell instant coffee with Libby condensed milk, his wife, trim in her Lycra...
...recent estimate, no fewer than 20,000 organizations and 100,000 people-25% more than a year ago-now devote full time to seeking a share of U.S. industry's $60 billion-a-year investment in new plants. The hunters not only outnumber the prospects but are growing adept at raiding each other's territory for corporate game, often with the state's Governor leading the foray. Governor John McKeithen and a 17-man team of Louisiana bigwigs recently visited Pennsylvania for a fast sales pitch to 139 firms. Governor William Scranton, having enlisted 130,000 businessmen...