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Root of Rage. The new Manheim translation makes more accessible to U.S. readers the astonishing virtuosity of Céline's style, which broke out of the formal gavotte of French grammar and syntax-and used all the resources of thieves' argot, slum slang, and the shoptalk of...
Arithmometers to Computers. Next year Burroughs will provide U.S. Steel with the first components of its new B 8500 series, perhaps the most advanced and most powerful analytical machine ever built for business. Basic costs for this model are nearly $8,000,000, or $150,000 per month for companies...
The B 8500 is a dream world away from the machine that gave Burroughs its start in St. Louis in 1888. This was William Seward Burroughs' arithmometer, an iron-and-glass adding device. For years Burroughs built purely mechanical adding machines, typewriters, cash registers and check printers. Turning to...
Clerk to Chairman. Burroughs "sells more adding machines than ever before," according to Chairman Ray R. Eppert, 64, although it has long since dropped the manufacturing of typewriters and cash registers. The company has capitalized on its years of experience with such hand-operated machinery by applying it to the...
Two years ago, Chairman Eppert, who started at Burroughs as a shipping clerk 45 years ago, began looking for a successor, found him in Ray W. Macdonald, head of the company's international sales. Under Macdonald, the company's overseas operations grew to equal its domestic organization. Macdonald...