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Other scientists too are apprehensive. D. Raj Reddy, a computer scientist at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, fears that universally available microcomputers could turn into formidable weapons. Among other things, says Reddy, sophisticated computers in the wrong hands could begin subverting a society by tampering with people's relationships with their own computers?instructing the other computers to cut off telephone, bank and other services, for example. The danger lies in the fast-expanding computer data banks, with their concentration of information about people and governments, and in the possibility of access to those repositories. Already, computer theft...
After plastering London with handsome SAVE THE STUBBS posters, the Tate managed to collect $900,000. By November they were still short, when aid came from an unexpected source. Philanthropist Paul Mellon, who recently gave much of his priceless collection of 18th and 19th century British paintings to Yale, had been considered the most likely foreign buyer if the Tate fell short. But Mellon, a self-styled "galloping Anglophile," felt the paintings should stay in England. He contributed four paintings from his private collection, two Vuillards, a Bonnard and a Giacometti, to a benefit auction. They went for about...
...second down-zoning petition is to rezone the Mellon, Oxford and Wendell Street area which is also owned by Harvard...
...Carborundum stockholders and some arbitragers like Goldman, Sachs and Salomon Bros., it was a satisfying deal, to say the least. It was also a notable coup for the patrician Mellon family of Pittsburgh, which has for decades owned a large block of Carborundum stock...
...same time the Mellon study notes cases where Ph.D.s who found jobs in corporate management were able to continue their scholarship outside their vocation, publishing articles and books...