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More than most youthful industries, the burgeoning U.S. computer business is dominated by giants-IBM, Philco, Sperry Rand. A notable exception is an aggressive young Minneapolis firm with the electronic-era name of Control Data. In four years, Control Data has risen from the brink of financial ruin to such...
The Deserters. Control Data was born when Norris and eleven colleagues deserted Sperry Rand in a body, touching off one of the electronics industry's bitterest Donnybrooks. Norris and his engineering team had had their own research firm from 1946 until 1952, when Remington Rand bought it. After Remington...
The team has what coach Bill Brooks calls "interesting balance," working from a nucleus of strength in seniors Bob Kaufmann. Jim Coffman, Norris Eisenbrey and Bill Zentgraf. Of all the events, only the diving is noticeably weak. The relay teams, despite the loss of last year's seniors Bruce Hunter...
The inimitable Norris Hoyt and the Harvard Yacht Club reunited in salty embrace last night as Hoyt presented his quasi-annual "What I did last summer" in the Harvard Union Common Room. The popular yachtsman was primed with spice and slides to accompany the narration of his European tour and...
"Here in Norris' own state," said Sorensen, "where the pioneers once vowed that every child should go to the common school, where the proportion of high school graduates has long ranked high and illiteracy low among all the states of the Union-education is no longer a prime concern...