Word: rand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike Monopoly, which gets parlor fun out of make-believe real estate transactions, Manchester cannot be bought at the nearest toy store. It is produced, under contract, for various business, government and educational institutions by Abt Associates, a 20 month-old fledgling in the Rand-type "think factory" research field. Headed by Clark Abt, 37, former advanced-systems manager at Raytheon, the Cambridge, Mass., company undertakes all sorts of computer projects, but it has made its biggest splash so far in the business of devising serious games. Its first contract was a game for the Defense Department that was aimed...
...trustees of the Chicago Historical Society turned down Fan Dancer Sally Rand 23 years ago when she offered the famous ostrich plumes she had used at the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair. Now, at 62, Sally is still fanning through the nightclub act that nearly turned the fair into a second Chicago fire, and evidently the trustees have grown nostalgic. They invited "Her Sexellency," as she is sometimes billed in the clubs, to donate the big 7-lb. fans to the society museum as "symbols of an era," and Sally saucily agreed. "Helps them keep abreast...
...gaudy entertainments. The city's job-sprouting economy (average family income: $9,000) also ripples with new muscle-and diversity. The sociology and economy of the whole area have been molded by the aerospace industry, by research into pure science, and by such think factories as RAND Corp. California Institute of Technology's satellite-tracking Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena has become all but synonymous with the race to the moon and deep space probes. Along "science strip," a 130-mile coastal stretch encompassing dozens of laboratories, test ranges and research companies, scientists have become leaders of such...
...They may spend their money in white stores and invest in the stock market, but to mail a letter they must enter the post office through a separate door and buy their stamps at a separate window. "South Africa," says Laurence Gandar, editor in chief of Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail, "is a nation that has lost...
...government advertises for white immigrants in newspapers throughout Europe, attracts more than 3,000 a month. Its propaganda organs beat the drums for "more white babies." Last month a Cape Town scientist declared that, with proper training, baboons could replace Africans in menial tasks-a suggestion that led the Rand Daily Mail to quip that Verwoerd would soon offer them their own Baboonstan. But so hungry is the nation for manpower that employers everywhere are forced to give non-whites ever more and ever better jobs...