Word: plane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost afraid to ask them what their intelligence quotients are," said McCarthy, "because they open with M.A.S and an I.Q. of 150 and go on from there." On the final weekend, his headquarters had to turn away 2,500 volunteers, including a group that was ready to charter a plane from California...
...bird, it's a plane...
...uses thin-film rods instead of conventional doughnut-shaped cores and is cheaper to manufacture. Each rod, one-tenth of an inch long, is coated with a thin film of magnetic material and then "danced" into coils of wire where 4,600 rods grouped together make up a memory plane. NCR has also standardized integrated circuits in its computers so that they need only 120 types of cards instead of the typical 1,200 in other computers. Another anticipated advantage for the Century is the sales force that NCR has built up in 83 years of international operation. "Computers...
When Henry Ford II recently took his company's new president, ex-General Motorsman Semon ("Bunkie") Knudsen, on an inspection tour of European operations, the worst was saved for last. Landing at Cologne, Ford and Knudsen needed only to look out the window of their private plane to see lots filled with Ford-made cars-part of the 45,000 that presently account for 56% of all West Germany's unsold autos. Ford sales for last January were off 35% and production schedules have been cut by one-third. Finally, arriving at the company's Cologne headquarters...
Died. Edward H. Litchfield, 53, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh from 1955 to 1965, while also holding down the board chairmanship of S.C.M. (Smith-Corona Marchant) Corp. and a handful of other executive positions; when the light plane carrying him, his mother, his wife and two children, and a pilot crashed into Lake Michigan. Steeped in administration as a top aide to Lucius Clay during the occupation of Germany, Litchfield was dean of Cornell's business school in 1955 when Pitt chose him as chancellor; in no time, he had kicked off a $126 million program to expand...