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In addition to legions of capitalists, the school has produced public servants like Henry Stimson and George Bush. Yale, the Los Angeles Times and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art are all headed by Andover graduates. Other alumni include the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Tarzan...
In fact, the ravenous and growing appetite of U.S. companies for data-processing machines and control devices accounted for a major portion of last year's $41 billion computer business. Only 15 years ago, IBM was for all practical purposes the computer industry. But the explosive rise in demand...
A coldhearted reader, in fact, may find The Silmarillion at least half fustian and more than a yard long. There are moments when Tolkien sounds as if he were writing a parody of Edgar Rice Burroughs in the style of the Book of Revelations.
"Let's see," says Otto Eckstein entrepreneurial economist, "how many clients are speaking with our computer at this moment." The good doctor presses a shiny gray key of a Burroughs 7700 computer, and out whirs the answer: 113. Then he touches another key, and the computer spits the names...
The questions put to DRI's computer range from economic esoterica ("What is the price of strawberries in Manitoba?") to the effects of broad economic trends on specific products ("How will the change in personal income for August alter the price of chlorine?"). Eckstein, a member of TIME'...