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Many other executives, however, have discovered that the computer is a tool of limited use. Says Horst Pohlmann, a Pratt & Whitney vice president who supervises 2,600 people: "There is no way that I have the time to feed data into that machine. I concluded that my time could be better spent with my people." Arthur Kesten, who installed his computer at home, sometimes communicates with the three big mainframe computers at the U.T. research center where he is an assistant director. But Kesten found that the device is ineffective as a home appliance. Says he: "Balancing a checkbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Finding the A on the Keyboard | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

Medicine for Business. Last October Rosie entertained her last guest. When police broke into her apartment they found her strangled with her own stockings. The police moved gingerly in the case, gently questioned a number of big industrialists, finally arrested an unemployed salesman named Pohlmann, who insisted loudly that he was not the murderer. Most tabloid-reading Germans believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Rosie & the New Rich | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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