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Choice '68 was co-sponsored by the UNIVAC division of Sperry-Rand Corporation, which tabulated the results by computer and announced them yesterday...
Time, however, claims that the mock election is for information only. A spokesman for UNIVAC, a division of the Sperry-Rand Corporation that will tabulate the results by early May, called Choice '68 "the first complete tabulation and analysis in history of the voting preferences of a nation-wide segment of the U.S. population...
...students offer Wisconsinites a refreshing relief from the hardened politicos who pass through the state every four years, their heads swimming with thoughts of 72 counties, ten Congressional districts, X number of delegates to the national convention. Most students descend on Wisconsin with only Rand McNally memories of the state as a cheese-colored mitten, its thumb thrust into a pale blueness labeled "Lake Michigan...
...combines this sort of fantasy with technical accuracy. For a forthcoming show set in a think tank, Geller sent two writers to make a study of the Rand Corp.'s offices, then reproduced it right down to the paper shredder in the basement. Yes, Phelps ends up crawling through chutes leading to the shredder. With a budget of $185,000 a show, M:I has no trouble coming up with an astonishing array of the latest devices of nuclear-age espionage. Says Staff Writer William Read Woodfield: "We like to think that the CIA is awake and watching...
...Robert S. McNamara, yet the two resemble each other in important respects. Caesar took over Rome by returning to the city at the head of an army that helped him consolidate power; McNamara became Defense Secretary at the head of a much smaller army of civilian experts from the RAND Corp., who helped him to fend off admirals and generals. Similarly, the original Henry Ford resembles Napoleon Bonaparte because both became so surrounded by yes men that they were unaware of structural problems. Howard Hughes is not unlike Charles I of England in the sense that each was the victim...