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...wife. He arrives at the studio on a motorcycle toting a kiddie's lunch box filled with avocado sandwiches, which he munches during rehearsals to placate his ulcer. He is a compulsive kook, strolls into a nightclub and begins waiting on tables, tools around town in his 1940 Packard sedan wearing a chauffeur's hat while his date sits in the back seat...
...former employees of the Packard-Bell Electronics Corp., S.D.S. is one of three U.S. computer makers to have consistently turned a profit. Warily avoiding competition with the other two-IBM and Control Data-S.D.S. has concentrated on the small, once neglected scientific market. There, says S.D.S. President Max Palevsky, 42, leader of the original six, "we saw a class of problems that should be solved by computers, but for which no computers were being built...
...Along with four new vice chairmen: General Electric President Fred J. Borch, B. F. Goodrich President J. Ward Keener, Federated Stores President Ralph Lazarus and Hewlett-Packard Chairman David Packard...
...proponents of the centralized data bank. Testified the Budget Bureau's Raymond Bowman: "This is a way to improve storage of and access to information for statistical uses. It would not have an interest in building up dossiers on individuals." A vigorous opponent of the data center, Vance Packard (The Hidden Persuaders), cited a case in which a department store refused to hire a man because his computerized record showed that at the age of 13 he had stolen $2 worth of fishing line. Argued Packard: "The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer...
...Neither Packard nor Reich apparently fully realizes the versatility of a computer. In its own way it can even be programmed for Christian redemption, taught to forget in any desired period of time. But until Congress is convinced that adequate safeguards for protecting the individual's privacy are in force, the Budget Bureau is likely to make little headway. "We are all concerned about the dropout of today," said Gallagher. "But I'm interested in the computer reject of tomorrow...