Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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On board, Steve Milgrim, 45, one of the founding fathers of computer dating and president of Operation Match (230,000 marriages in 4½ years is his claim), confirms the depressing visual evidence and goes into his pitch. "Singles," he recites, "are not just in their 20s, but in their...
Crushed Expectancy. Next afternoon, the crowd gathered in the Zebra Room for the "Operation Match get-together" looks like a sampling from the line outside Radio City Music Hall. Much of the previous evening's frenzy has spent itself. The room is quiet as Milgrim begins his spiel. "A...
The next day, more through mingling than computer matching, the artificial society is beginning to stabilize. Several couples hold hands on deck chairs in the warming sun. A dozen small parties erupt spontaneously in a dozen staterooms. A haggard haberdasher from Baltimore stumbles out of his cabin, glass in hand...
And yet there comes the realization that for most of the 340 women and 312 men who paid their money and took their chances, the trip has satisfied their expectations, if not their wildest hopes. Putting it in practical terms, Milgrim points out that "for most singles, a date with...
In U.S. banking, more than in most other lines of business, computers have freed employees from considerable drudgery by taking over routine paperwork and bookkeeping. Now the machines will begin to do much more important chores for many banks. The First National Bank of Atlanta, one of the South'...