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DIED. John W. Mauchly, 72, co-inventor of the first all-electronic computer; during heart surgery; in Abington, Pa. The Ohio-born physicist was teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1943 when he and Graduate Student J. Presper Eckert Jr. began building an electronic machine to replace mechanical devices. The ENIAC (for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator), a 30-ton leviathan completed in 1946, was 1,000 times speedier than any other computer. After selling their company to the Sperry Rand Corp., the two devised smaller and even quicker machines, among them the celebrated UNIVAC, developed...
...William Eckert Long Beach, Calif...
...Louise Eckert, director of the sex and age division of the MCAD said yesterday that on the basis of Eisenberg's statement, "That would seem to be a discriminatory practice...
Leonard F. DePaola, general counsel for the MCAD, last night said he agreed with Eckert's assessment, but added he would not want to judge the case at this time because it might prejudice a future complaint against the Medical School...
...Eckert put his house on the market and prepared to move to Washington, D.C. But no one was buying. Finally he hit upon an added attraction: with the house a buyer would get a 1953 Silver Wraith Rolls-Royce once owned by a Saudi Arabian prince. Total price: $92,500. At week's end, there were still no takers...