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...wonder hey don't call it something else"). Settled in Chambers ends up tamely with all the conventional comedy answers and one big question: What lace-curtain gentility, what damnable tact keeps lonor Tracy from finally ripping through? The book earns its solid quota of middle-volume laughter, but its uthor remains cursed by an un-Irish 'emon of cautious restraint...
Based on the estimated draft needs for fiscal 1969, Massachusetts will have a quota of 4000 men, slightly more than 1.6 per cent of the national calls. About 2500 of the 4000 will be either college graduates or first year grad students...
Even with such sales, NCR still has only about a 2% share of the U.S. computer market v. the overwhelming 70% held by IBM. To narrow the gap, and to climb a few steps over other computer makers, Oelman has set what he calls a "minimum sales quota" of 5,000 Centurys worth $1 billion to be sold or rented during the next five years (initial orders last week: 208). One way NCR hopes to meet the quota is through improved technology. The company's laboratories have developed a new kind of memory system, which uses thin-film rods...
...setup that makes him look good. The truth, says Tarsis, is that these socialist vacations on the regime leave plenty of opportunity for grafters, people who charge exorbitant rents for private houses and those who haul in the tips of the big spenders. Simply by meeting Moscow's quota and more, Lipyan pleases his masters and has enough left over to make him that theoretically impossible anachronism: a happy capitalist in a proletarian society...
...election brought to seven the number of coeds presently heading an M.I.T. activity. Miss Kivisild attributed the increase, three over last year, to the increased number of coeds (200 out of 3700) that now attend M.I.T. Until 1964 when the quota was raised to 50, there were less than 30 admitted per class. Next year approximately 100 women will be admitted to the freshman class...