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California's Fletcher Jones, the com puter programmer, believes that the fu ture belongs to "brokers in technology" -young men with the savvy in both business and technology to organize and manage the work of scientists. Say he: "Look for opportunities in the very newest technologies-oceanography, sub-miniaturization, information retrieval-where a man of 35 can have the experience of someone of 65. But stay away from law, medicine and architecture. Professional men almost always practice alone. To become a millionaire, you must get people behind you so that you can be multiplied...
...while I listen to stock market reports on the radio"). Usually they put in ten or twelve hours at the office, then spend their nights and weekends pondering reports or burning up the long-distance lines. Practically everything that they do is somehow devoted to building the business. Says Fletcher Jones, 34, of Los Angeles, who in 1959 saw a need for a firm to analyze and program problems for computers to solve, started his Computer Sciences Co. and is now worth $20 million: "Money allows me to do some of the things I want to do. Still...
...Shaw ever played the "inscrutable" game, he might have looked like that indeed, bending over the plate in knickers and Norfolk jacket and slamming line drives all over the field. The thought amused English Actor Bramwell Fletcher, 60, as he assembled his evening of Shavian sport, The Bernard Shaw Story, a one-man show now playing in Manhattan. Fletcher gleaned a few lines from Shaw's 1925 essay "This Baseball Madness," and added them to his impersonation. Wielding his unlikely prop, Fletcher-Shaw muses: "As far as I can grasp it, baseball combines the best features of primitive cricket...
...strangest bids were made by Real Estate Developer David Sapp. For $200 he won an hour with City Manager Thomas Fletcher, which he wanted in order to argue against high-rise apartments going up near the beach at La Jolla. For another $220, he bought all the space for a day on the marquees of the Mission Valley Shopping Center. His message, to be spelled out on December 17, will be a salute to his son: "Congratulations, Joey Sapp. Happy Bar Mitzvah...
...other faculty members praised the suggestion. Fletcher G. Watson, professor of Education, said, "I've been talking about the idea for years...