Word: cray
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves, but some employees in the corporate world have taken the optional road to riches. At Idaho's Boise Cascade Corp., Vice President William Eberle, 41, has piled up $2,300,000 worth of stock through options, and the chief designer of Control Data's computers, Seymour Cray, 39, has stock worth well over $1,000,000. They, of course, showed fine timing and an expert instinct for opportunity. Through the careers of all the young millionaires runs a golden thread: they determined early in life to devote themselves to accumulating great wealth, and they pursued that goal...
Lynch also righted some wrongs. Colgate's Dick Johnston and Navy's Court-yard Cray had upset the Crimson's captain-elect in the 440-yard hurdles earlier is spring, but neither got within arm's length Saturday...
Sophomore Ed Cray is a threat for the Redmen in the individual medley and the backstroke, where he will probably meet Bob Corris and Tony Fingleton...
What saved the company was a breakthrough by Engineer Seymour Cray in the emerging field of solid-state computers. By using transistors instead of vacuum tubes, and cheap printed circuits instead of miles of intricate wiring, Cray developed Control Data's reliable and relatively cheap ($1,250,000) 1604 computer, thus enabling the company to introduce its solid-state computer on the commercial market neck and neck with the industry giants. But with success came new headaches. Sperry Rand, alleging that Norris & Co. were using pirated Sperry Rand trade secrets, sued to enjoin them from capitalizing on any more...
...Boston, Correspondent Doug Cray was assigned to interview visiting Soviet Scientist Leonid I. Sedov, who had just been interviewed over a Boston TV show and had set off for Brown University in Providence. Correspondent Cray got in touch with Sedov's Russian translator on the program, Harvard's Nicholas DeWitt, arranged for him to come along, and hired a Cadillac ("a sickly marlin blue") to speed off to Providence. Sedov by then was about to emplane for New York. Cray persuaded him to ride instead in the Cadillac "in utter peace and quiet." Sedov produced a couple...