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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that kind of money, the mini-moviemakers command top talent. Frank Sinatra sells Budweiser beer. Sid Caesar does a comedy routine for Sperry Rand, while Jose Ferrer supplies the voice-over continuity. Edward G. Robinson poured for Maxwell House coffee. Jack Benny promotes Texaco gasoline. George Burns puffs El Producto cigars. Sometimes the process is reversible. Actress Barbara Feldon was a sexy slink of a salesgirl for Top Brass hairdressing ("Sic 'em, tiger") before she went big on legit TV as co-star of Get Smart! Pam Austin, the original Dodge girl, is now a member of the cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: . . . And Now a Word about Commercials | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...Sperry Rand Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: DEFENSE: THE TOP 100 | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

Died. James H. Rand Jr., 81, co-founder of Remington Rand Inc. and the merger genius who helped create the giant Sperry Rand Corp.; of cancer; in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. "Go out and make a living!" Rand Sr., founder of the Rand Ledger Co., brusquely told his business-minded son in 1915. Rand proceeded to turn a borrowed $10,000 into the American Kardex Co., which marketed a filing cabinet he had invented, then in 1925 merged with his father's company, and in 1927 with the Remington Typewriter Co. The final merger, with the Sperry Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 14, 1968 | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

Senior Frank Haggerty was the winner of the Rand Hurdling Award for the second straight year. Ron Wilson won the Carver Weight and Hammer Award, also for the second time in two years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinclads Name Freshman Coach, Present Awards | 5/22/1968 | See Source »

Meantime McCarthy could cheer himself with the results of "Choice 68," a computerized presidential-preference poll of U.S. college students. Sponsored by Time Inc. and Sperry Rand's Univac Division, the poll was the largest nationwide pre-election sampling ever taken, with more than 1,000,000 students voting on 1,450 of the nation's campuses. Last week, after computers tabulated results, McCarthy won, with 285,988 votes, followed by Kennedy with 213,832 and Nixon with 197,167. Rockefeller, who was not an active candidate at the time of the voting late last month, collected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Primaries: Tails You Lose | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

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