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...JOHN RAND...
...claimed Sperry Rand Corp., a response to the feminist movement but simply a good business decision to add Economist Norma Pace, 50, to its board of directors early this month. That seems obvious. A consultant specializing in business and economic forecasting for such firms as General Motors, Sears, Roebuck, and General Electric, slender and risk Mrs. Pace had developed a novel early warning system for detecting economic change, based on such factors as population patterns, consumer spending and political trends. She is also, it happens, an attractive and quite feminine executive...
...Jones industrials fell 17 points, to 891), investors have found a new group of stocks worth betting on. During one session last week, 22 of the 26 stocks touching new highs were energy-related companies. Among them: United Nuclear; Getty Oil; Hughes Tool, which makes oil-drilling bits; Ingersoll-Rand, which manufactures mining machinery; and the Williams Companies, which build pipelines...
...spoke of "toe-poppers," "daisy cutters" and "dragon's teeth" -all antipersonnel maiming explosives that they had used in Viet Nam. Anthony Russo, who helped to make the Pentagon papers public, recalled that, as the war escalated, he once took a grenade to the computer room of the Rand Corporation. "I wanted to throw it in there," he testified. "Had I been younger, I think I would have done...
Burlesque isn't dead as long as Sally Rand can lift a shocking pink ostrich-feather fan. At a benefit for Phoenix House, the Manhattan drug rehabilitation center, Sally, 69, got most of the midnight whistles from the Roseland crowd studded with names, from Senator Jacob Javits (in black tie) to ex-Evangelist Marjoe (in jeans...