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...should have priority, where to send students when the Houses they have applied for have no more vacancies, and so forth. Given this information and a solution to the first problem, Oettinger calculates, the actual writing of a program for the University's 7090 computer, or setting up the plug-board for a mechanical card sorter, could be done "by anyone." (He considers the choice between the sorter and the 7090 computer, like that between cards or tape for recording information, a relatively unimportant technicality. "Machine operating time in either case would be only 15-20 minutes...
...grocery clerk and the checkout-counter man. Before going to market, a woman will slip her computer into her purse (it will have an inventory of what she needs in the way of staples and supplies stored in its wafer-thin memory cells). Once at the market, she will plug her computer into a socket in a vacant "delivery alcove" and wait for the results. The computer will carry out the business of identifying itself, making the proper accounting entries in its own memory, and authorizing the charge against its mistress' universal checking account. In less than a minute...
Triumph & Tragedy. When Curtice left business school and applied at the age of 20 for a bookkeeper's job with AC Spark Plug, later a G.M. division, an interviewer asked him what his ambition was. Said Curtice: "Your job, within a year." Topping that, he became AC's controller within a year, went on to head the division. Tapped in 1933 to take over the staggering Buick division, he led it to fourth place in industry sales by introducing a low-priced model that was a best seller during the Depression. When G.M. President Charles Wilson became Dwight...
...years ago. Later brought out in broader-minded England and France, it has finally found its way to U.S. audiences through one of the publishers that first rejected it, Grove Press (U.S. purveyors of Henry Miller's two Tropics], perhaps because it now wears on its jacket a plug from Miller himself. It proves astonishingly vulgar of tongue but also refreshingly light of heart...
...return of Pochop fortifies the tackle spot, perhaps the weakest on the squad right now. Dobrzelecki and Southmayd are especially welcome at guard, particularly with Kessler out. Yovicsin was forced to play center Joe Minotti at guard last Saturday to plug the hole created by injury...