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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...
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...
...answer Harris' question, TIME and Sperry Rand's Univac Division agreed to help conduct the first unofficial nationwide presidential primary, called CHOICE 68. On April 24, a total of more than 1,000,000 bal lots were cast on campuses from Maine to California. Merely by punching out perforations in computer cards, they indicated their first, second and third choices for President, their views on the Viet Nam war, and their attitudes toward urban problems. Fed into the UNIVAC 1108's memory bank in Washington, the results were tabulated and analyzed within 15 minutes after the "command...
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...