Word: rand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first electronic computer, used 18,000 vacuum tubes as circuits and quick-acting switches. Though they were a big advance, vacuum tubes proved too expensive, too unreliable and too bulky: ENIAC weighed 30 tons and took up 1,500 sq. ft. of floor space. Until 1954, when Remington Rand (now Sperry Rand) first sold its UNIVAC to industry, the few computers in the U.S. were largely experimental and custom designed...
...could expose his junior brood to Baldwin, to Norman Mailer, to Paul Goodman and Ayn Rand--not because the Institute should attempt to convert its residents into radicals and reactionaries, but because a good politician understands his community, not only the majority that elects him, but also the minorities on the fringes, where political creativity often has its roots...
...went to work for a major South African paper, the Post, and its sister publication, Drum. In addition to his work there, Nakasa founded a literary quarterly, Crisis (with contributors ranging from Doris Lessing to Leopold Senghor), and started a weekly column for a prestigious white paper, the Rand Daily Mail, the first such column by an African...
Your successful, and as yet unexplained, infiltration of the Rand Corporation in the person of your secret agent Allen S. Whiting, who wrote China Crosses the Yalu exonerating China from the charge of aggression in the Korean police action, is further proof that you will stop at nothing to hide your true nature. And your even more clever takeover of the New York Times and the Herald Tribune for the purposes of announcing to the world that it was India and not China who started the border war, compounded by your diabolical plot of calling unilaterally for a cease-fire...
Wrestling at 115, Kopecki also reached the finals, downing the first four men to face him: Billy Rand of Lehigh 3-2, Tom Russell of Albany State 11-3, Tom Boyd of Bloomsberg State 6-5, and Bill Matias of Syracuse 5-0 in overtime. In the finals Kopecki was defeated by Bob McGann of Oswego State Teachers' College...