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...geneticist, has been particularly outspoken in his anti-sociobiology crusade. Rose, neurobiology professor at the Open University in England, has written on the social implications of biological and psychological research. Kamin, a professor of psychology at Princeton University, uncovered one of the most fraudulent scientific studies ever conducted: Sir Cyril Burt's experiments on intelligence...
...marketing. While previously the company had sold products mainly to sophisticated industrial users, it was now going after the mass market. First Hewlett-Packard hired the McKinsey consulting company to do a yearlong product-planning study. Then it consolidated its personal-computer operations into a new group headed by Cyril Yansouni, 41, a 17-year company veteran. Admits Yansouni: "We were dabbling in the business but not pushing really hard." Yansouni has tried to eliminate product overlaps and jazz up the company's stodgy image. He hired the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, gave larger profit margins to dealers...
...Blair during his school vacations, disputes this self-portrait: "The business about how unpopular he was was a lot of nonsense, a fairy story." He fished and hunted, kept pet guinea pigs and roamed the Oxfordshire countryside. But Jacintha did not see him at St. Cyprian's. Critic Cyril Connolly, who was his classmate, would later remember that Eric "felt bitterly that he was taken on at reduced fees because he might win the school a scholarship; he saw this as a humiliation, but it was really a compliment." The prickly youth did, in fact, earn a scholarship...
During the war, Orwell and his wife lived in London. Cyril Connolly recalled: "He felt enormously at home in the Blitz, among the bombs, the bravery, the rubble, the shortages, the homeless, the signs of rising revolutionary temper." By then Orwell had become something of a celebrated eccentric, that gaunt Etonian who dressed like a working man (corduroy trousers, dark shirt, size-twelve boots), rolled his cigarettes from a pouch of acrid shag and poured his tea into a saucer before drinking it (there he goes, that Socialist who says such terrible things about Mr. Stalin). Eric Blair had totally...
...makers are being forced to copy IBM. In September, Hewlett-Packard (1982 sales: $4.2 billion) introduced an office computer built around the same microprocessor that the PC uses and employing the same operating system. "It's the first time we've conformed to an industry standard," says Cyril Yansouni, general manager of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company...