Word: profits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bureaucratic inertia and sensitivity to criticism have so far been more troublesome than political entanglements. The Center has contracted to evaluate several urban programs run by government agencies and non-profit groups. To their chagrin, the Center's researchers are finding, as one put it, that "while academics may thrive on criticism, bureaucrats don't." When one of the Center's reports criticized a Roxbury agency for not reaching the low-income population that it was supposed to serve, the agency and the Federal officials who were financing it immediately denounced the Joint Center...
...CONTROVERSY (Capitol). With lofty disdain, this report decries the "scavengers" who continue to profit by President Kennedy's assassination and its aftermath. But it joins the very group it pretends to despise by presenting little more than a rehash of old tapes of the four black days in Dallas, a mishmash of Warren Report detractors, and the smuggled-out bedside interview with Jack Ruby shortly before he died. The interview, like the record, is shabby and unrevealing...
During its best year in history, the computer industry's shipments rose 71% to 13,700 units. Giant IBM's 1966 sales jumped 19% to $4.2 billion, and some longtime losers, Sperry Rand's Univac division and Honeywell's computer-making operation, turned the profit corner in handsome fashion. But it remained for little Scientific Data Systems of Santa Monica, Calif., to print out some of the most exciting gain figures. Only five years old, S.D.S. reported 1966 sales of $55.5 million and profits of $4,300,000-both up 27% over...
...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...
...private, non-profit organization, the Cambridge Corporation was founded nine months ago to help initiate a wide variety of programs for the development of Cambridge. Both Harvard and M.I.T. are represented on the board...