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PHILIP ARDERY, PETER CUMMINGS, NANCY H. DAVIS, JOHN D. GERHART, CURTIS A. HESSLER, ELLEN LAKE, A. DOUGLAS MATTHEWS, GREGORY P. PRESSMAN, GEORGE H. ROSEN, RAND E. ROSENBLATT, DANIEL J. SIGNAL, AND WILLIAM H. SMOCK...
...plow into stocks that they felt were good bargains. Large institutions - insurance companies, mutual funds and pension funds - were also active, as evidenced by the great blocks of stock that changed hands: 17,200 shares of Chrysler; 53,000 shares of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron, 80,000 shares of Sperry Rand. But the little man played a little role. Trading in odd lots of fewer than 100 shares accounted for only 7% of the volume...
Johannesburg's crusading editor, Laurence Gandar, 50, of the Rand Daily Mail, had been looking forward to a visit to Britain, on an invitation mailed him just the week before by an admiring British newspaper group. Then, suddenly, two of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's detectives changed his plans by calling at his home and relieving him of his passport - indefinitely. Joked Gandar: "For a moment, it struck me that somebody here might have been reading my mail. But I dismissed so unworthy a thought...
Swooping in Seconds. What happened to Mrs. Placente was the first public demonstration of "Operation Corral"-an acronym that police flacks spell out as "Computer Oriented Retrieval of Auto Larcenists." The core of Corral is a borrowed UNIVAC 490, one of Sperry Rand's $500,000 "real time" computers that can analyze an event while the event is happening. Corral's UNIVAC has been fed the license numbers of 30,000 stolen cars and the cars of 80,000 scofflaws-traffic violators who neglect to answer summonses or pay fines...
...homeside boys took this up and made him a martyr, ranting in paragraph after paragraph about the sins of the 'top brass.' I thought there was an air of needless controversy−professional hostility−about those reporters." Almost as if he were looking forward toward Vietnam, Rand concluded that the reporters were indulging in the same sort of "perfunctory muckraking, or imitation of crusading," that they thought of as so large a part of their job at home...