Word: rand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admire the late Joe McCarthy, favor colonialism, back such causes as the "right" to exclude Negroes from certain neighborhoods, demand that students sign loyalty oaths, picket the movies Spartacus and Exodus because Dalton Trumbo (TIME, Jan. 2) wrote them. They take as their philosopher Novelist Ayn (Atlas Shrugged) Rand, who for a brooch wears a gold dollar sign to symbolize the values of selfcenteredness. On the other end of the spectrum are Kennedy supporters who find in the President's appeal to duty ("Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your...
...stag dinner, which is always held on MacArthur's birthday, is virtually his only public appearance. So successfully has the old soldier faded away that he never gives an interview, seldom leaves his Waldorf Towers hermitage, even to preside as board chairman at executive meetings of Sperry Rand Corp...
...Engelhard-Oppenheimer investment giant, which will be called Rand Selection Corp., Ltd., is a holding company made up of a combine of six older holding companies, including three controlled by Oppenheimer and one, Rand American Investments, Ltd., owned by Engelhard. Rand Selection's portfolio will be 44% gold mines, some copper and coal mines, and industrial firms...
...machines become truly intelligent? Mathematician John D. Williams of the Rand Corp. told a Tempe, Ariz. meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics that they can and probably will become more intelligent than...
Charles J. Hitch, 51, Assistant Secretary of Defense (comptroller). Bow-tied Scholar Hitch has been chief of economics research at California's highbrow Rand Corp. since 1948, two months ago was named director of the corporation's overall research program. He has published three brain-cracking books (the latest: last year's The Economics of Defense in the Nuclear Age). At Rand, Hitch has been in charge of thinking out the economic implications of cold war military problems and weapons systems-an assignment so close to his new job as Defense's financial watchdog that...