Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Question, helpfully enumerated the types of music required for a big giveaway show. Included are: 1) "Playon music." to fit the personality of the contestant as he comes on stage; 2) "Sorting and Punching music," to fit the mechanical gyrations of the IBM machine as it picks out the card containing questions; 3) "Thinking music," to match the cerebrations of the contestant as he tries to come up with the right answer; and 4) "Cold-Sweat music," to match the audience mood as the contestant broods inside the illuminated box during the 30 seconds allowed before he tries...
...first Wish is to use the bad boys' office for a gigantic IBM calculator that will dispense the tix, automatically taking into consideration the undergraduate's age, dating status, and eyesight. For rainy games the tix will come inside umbrellas...
...departmentalizes, our little personal refuges, the harder it is to maintain any sense of unity, of follow ship, of community, the more difficult it will be for the single human being in his full individuality, the Harvard man, old-style, to count. We turn things over to the IBM machines and the formulas...
...Puzzle is confused by far more than total collections--although the average donation of the 61 percent who contributed last year was only $4.44. The problem goes deeper too than mere technical details, such as the date or duration of the drive. Fall drives, predated checks, and IBM machines may help, but efficiency--laudable as it is--is no answer to student disinterest. Instead of searching for a few missing pieces, the Council will have to examine the whole pattern of the College's single charity drive...
...novel phase in this year's drive is the use of IBM machines to sort cards turned in by donors, Dorsen stated. The machines, located in the basement of Littauer, will help in the process of sorting out bad checks...