Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superstition. For one thing, today's young cyberneticists tend to anthropomorphize their tools. Tom Allison, 25, a Coca-Cola executive in Atlanta, is convinced that his 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...
...Most of the grapes we feed the students are from California," Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant purchasing agent, said in an interview Tuesday. "We know there is some sort of moral issue involved and we are behind it, but our function here is to get the best grapes for our money...
That sounds good. Unfortunately, Surplus Commodities has several built-in problems, both in concept and execution. Poor families learned quickly that there was no way to get enough commodities to feed the family; the supply of free food usually lasts ten or twelve days into the month. But that was more forgiveable than the program's more basic sin--its orientation to farm needs rather than the needs of hungry people...
...Saddle Sores. Oppenheimer deals in cattle and feed transactions that last year amounted to $15 million and yielded nearly $1,000,000 in fees and commissions. He caters to a solvent and not exactly saddle-sore clientele (among past and present customers: Banker Robert Lehman, Comedian Jack Benny, Actress Joan Fontaine). For would-be instant cattlemen, Oppenheimer will assemble a herd, buy a spread, hire a manager and oversee the whole operation. "Real crapshooters," as Oppenheimer calls clients who are able and willing to win or lose as much as 50% on their money in a single year...
...that, $9,750 covers the first year's feed, financing and breeding costs, plus Oppenheimer's maximum 81% com mission - all of which is tax deductible...