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...Sarah Vaughan was singing her heart out at Le Bistro, Lyndon Johnson's two-night stand was an S.R.O. draw at Convention Hall. The Steel Pier featured Mickey Rooney, Milton Berle and The Diving Horse. And over at the Globe Theater, the management proudly presented "Her Sexcellency" Sally Rand in Person. To the surprise of those who thought Strip per Sally had gone out with bathtub gin, she seemed to have changed hardly at all. For that matter, Atlantic City hadn't either...
Sharing this market are 2,000 U.S. school-supply firms. They include not only the oldtime school-supply special ists such as Rand McNally (maps) and Milton Bradley (art materials), but such prestigious newcomers as Thompson Ramo Wooldridge (language laboratories) and IBM (class scheduling). Their market is enormous: 41,500,000 elementary and secondary students, each of whom this year will need about $16 worth of pencils, papers, erasers and teaching materials...
...mighty IBM, which routinely scoops up 70% of the world's computer orders. By making all its equipment so that it meshes with IBM's systems-and trying to make it better and cheaper-once-tiny Control Data has risen to third place in computers (after Sperry Rand) and is jokingly known on Wall Street as "the poor...
...that there is anything to be scared of. Control Data's success is due to the shrewd marketing strategy and careful planning program worked out by the eleven Sperry Rand engineers-led by Norris-who founded the firm in 1957 after tiring of life in a big corporation. Realizing that they could not compete directly with the giants, they concentrated on scientific computers, where IBM was weakest, instead of on business data-processing equipment, where it was strongest. They made all their machines compatible with IBM systems at a time when most other computer firms were setting up their...
...Paul Rand Dixon, another Tennessee lawyer and former antitrust investigator for Senator Estes Kefauver, has become a noisy but erratic defender of the little consumer...