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THERE ARE almost as many reasons for Star Trek's continued popularity as there are fans of the show. Some people are attracted to Star Trek because of its sophisticated use of technology. Roddenberry had the help of several Ph.Ds, including scientists from the Rand Corporation, who acted as technical consultants for the show. "Each episode cost $185,000," explained Roddenberry, "and all of the special effects people in the business think that for the money we spent we were tops in the field...
...agreement freezing offensive missiles at roughly current levels for the next five years. To take Smith's place, President Nixon last week named Fred C. Iklé (pronounced ee-CLAY), 48, the author of three books on nuclear strategy and for the past six years head of the Rand Corporation's social science department. Swiss-born, Iklé emigrated to the U.S. in 1946, got his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago, and later taught political science at M.I.T...
...week, many of the Durban strikers were returning to work, but their protest had left its mark on the country. As the Rand Daily Mail observed: "The Zulus have brought home to employers that they can no longer get away with appallingly low wages...
...have nowhere to go but up." Describing himself as a "radical populist," Scott insists that his aim is not to de-emphasize but to "democratize" sports. In an odd non sequitur, he adds: "What no one realizes is that I voted for Barry Goldwater in 1964, and read Ayn Rand...
Norris has long held a grudge against IBM. Control Data, founded in 1957 by Norris and seven other computer engineers who quit Sperry Rand Corp., rose to prominence by concentrating on a part of the market that IBM did not dominate: the large computer used mainly in scientific research. In 1963, Norris' engineers came up with the biggest "number cruncher" of all, the 6600. But before Control Data could put it on the market, IBM announced that it would introduce a giant computer of its own, the System 360 Model 90. Such is the magic...