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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Based on a three-year-old Rand Corp. estimate of the radiation that worldwide fallout from a relatively small (20,000-megaton) attack would scatter on fields, woods and other parts of "the natural environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Save Those Pine Seeds! | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...spite of itself. Around 1910 an elderly collector named William Evans offered to leave 40 American paintings, including a Ralph Albert Blakelock and a Childe Hassam, to Montclair, provided that the town put up a suitable building. When the town hesitated, Mrs. Henry Lang, an heir to the Rand mining machinery millions, briskly decided to get things moving by putting up $50,000 herself. In 1914 the neoclassic building opened its doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: America, N.J. | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...development of world law. These are not easy tasks. They will not be quickly resolved, even with great effort. How can we expect to resolve them with little effort, or with sporadic effort? If we have 10,000 people in the Pentagon, and in such organizations as the Rand Corporation, devoting their minds to problems of defense, should we not have at least, a thousand working in and out of Government on the manifold problems of the maintenance of peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Griswold Urges Emphasis On Law | 9/27/1961 | See Source »

...regard them merely as training devices, insist that the results are not taken into account in hiring or promotions. But most players take such assurances with a grain of salt and, because they believe the results can influence their careers, grow grimly serious. "It is amazing," reports Remington Rand Executive Jim Evans, who conducts games on the Univac. "You'll see grown men cry when they come out with a loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Gamesmanship for Real | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

Harry F. Vickers (president, Sperry Rand Corp.), W8HBY

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: HAMS' WHO'S WHO | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

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