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...abundance of lore about the OSS has long since surfaced: how Lawyer Bill Donovan, a heroic World War I officer, jury-rigged the intelligence agency President Franklin Roosevelt wanted by recruiting an elite of socialites (Polo Player Raymond Guest), millionaires (Paul Mellon), intellectuals (Archibald Macleish), journalists (Stewart Alsop) and performers (Sterling Hayden). How the OSS got to be twitted as "Oh-So-Social." How it nurtured such future CIA leaders as Richard Helms, Angleton and Casey...
...networkers are equally candid about kinks in the computer services. "It's frequently not very much fun," warns Stewart Alsop, who does much of the research and correspondence for his biweekly P.C. Letter on the networks and still gets lost in their labyrinthine menus. Consumers who shop by keyboard complain that on-line service can be sluggish and undependable. Orders placed electronically may reach retailers in a flash, but they are often filled by hand and thus subject to human inefficiencies. A Sears color TV that Hovanees ordered through CompuServe's Electronic Mall never did arrive. And, as Peggy Berk...
...forced to postpone delivery of its eagerly awaited home computer until after the Christmas sales rush. Apple, meanwhile, has still not delivered the large disk drive that was to have been the centerpiece of the Macintosh Office announced with great hoopla early in 1985. According to Stewart Alsop II, who publishes a vaporlist of tardy technology in his P.C. Letter, the problem has reached the point where "consumers often cannot tell what is being sold and what is just being talked about." Even Lotus, which earned a reputation for finishing best-selling programs like 1-2-3 and Symphony right...
Blame for mismanagement of the Solomon Amendment, however, does not all belong to the Department of Education Trouble started in March when federal district court judge Donald A Alsop invalidated the amendment as unconstitutional because he said it violated citizens' right against self-incrimination and punishment with out a trial Alsop ordered the Department to stop implementation of the law, which would have required students applying for federal financial aid to indicate on their aid form that they had registered for the draft. Students and college officials ignored the requirement accordingly, reasoning that, even if the Supreme Court overruled Alsop...
Implementation of the law, dubbed the Solomon Amendment for its sponsor Rep. Gerald Solomon (R-N.Y.), was uncertain after federal district court Judge Donald D. Alsop in St. Paul invalidated the legislation in March. Alsop ruled that the law in unconstitutional because it violates citizens' rights for a fair trial and against self-incrimination...