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Philadelphia industries responded more than enthusiastically to Sullivan's program, providing both money and machinery for instruction. Sperry Rand contributed a $350,000 Univac computer. Smith Kline & French outfitted a laboratory for the instruction of chemical-lab technicians. The Budd Co., one of the nation's biggest makers of subway cars, gave equipment for training sheet-metal workers, then hired 200 of the graduates...
...treatment for cancer. The 15 years of Krebiozen controversy ended only last year. Now, in a strangely reminiscent case, the Government has asked the U.S. District Court in Cleveland to issue a permanent ban on the manufacture and interstate shipment of the latest invention against the dread disease, the "Rand cancer vaccine...
...because there was neither sufficient time nor staff to do the planning necessary for a large-scale effort. Henry Rowen, former assistant director of the Bureau of the Budget, was slated to join the Institute as "director of studies," but instead accepted an unexpected appointment as president of the RAND Corporation...
During its best year in history, the computer industry's shipments rose 71% to 13,700 units. Giant IBM's 1966 sales jumped 19% to $4.2 billion, and some longtime losers, Sperry Rand's Univac division and Honeywell's computer-making operation, turned the profit corner in handsome fashion. But it remained for little Scientific Data Systems of Santa Monica, Calif., to print out some of the most exciting gain figures. Only five years old, S.D.S. reported 1966 sales of $55.5 million and profits of $4,300,000-both up 27% over...
...gulfside house on Siesta Key off Sarasota, insists that he is doing exactly what he wants. He feels no need, he says, to write "the Big Book," the kind written by "the Irvings-Irving Wallace, 'Irving' Robbins, 'Irving' Ruark, and that woman, 'Irving' Rand." His own work, he adds, without false modesty, is demanding enough. Anyone else could do it, provided, of course, "that all your life you have read at least two or three good books a week, that you have an IQ of 125-plus, that you are in good enough health...