Word: corp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computer is feminine. "She keeps cutting me off at the most inopportune times," he complains. A programmer in Los Angeles will not feed blue cards into his computer-he feels she deserves pink. Seymour Greenfield, a research manager for the military DRC-44 computer program at Dynamics Research Corp. near Boston, complicates the matter further, " I hired everyone building the computer by the zodiac signs under which they were born," he says. As a Leo, he has prejudices. "I hired two Cancer men and they both ended up with ulcers...
...sorts of old superstitions have re-emerged in a new era, sometimes in new guises. One Chicago dealer in magical objects reports that "crystal balls are selling like popcorn" for as much as $23 apiece. New York's TBS Computer Centers Corp. now cranks out 20-page personal horoscopes for a mere $15, the electronic brain taking only a minute to compute a life history that flesh-and-blood astrologers need a week to prepare. Necromancy, the art of communication with the dead, has undergone a rebirth, abetted by California's Episcopal Bishop James Pike, who engaged...
Last week all rights to the 25,000-word manuscript were sold to the McCall Corp. The initial payment was $1,000,000, probably the highest figure ever for a piece of its length. Depending on the bidding for book rights, the final figure could be even higher...
...McCall Corp.'s Editor in Chief Norman Cousins promised that the article in the November McCall's would contain never published information on "the thinking and feelings at that time of the President and Attorney General, the estimates and reports of the CIA." In addition, it would tell of Security Council deliberations and "the significant secret meetings between the Attorney General and Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin." Other editors who had seen the manuscript emphasized other virtues. "The thing that comes across," said one, "is the terribly close relationship between the two Kennedy brothers. It's not as great...
When Boeing Co. beat out Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for the prize of building the U.S. supersonic jet transport, it was on the basis of a venturesome swing-wing concept that many aeronautical designers predicted would never work. Last week, 21 months and many millions later, the skeptics were proved right. Boeing is now scrapping its movable wing. To take its place, the company has decided on a stationary swept-back configuration that bears more than a passing resemblance to Lockheed's original "delta" wing design...