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...American businessman is a persecuted minority, discriminated against and penalized for his achievements," said Ayn Rand last night at the Ford Hall Forum. The controversial novelist maintained that the American businessman is "the scapegoat of the bureaucrats' hatred...
Defining freedom as the "absence of physical coercion," Miss Rand declared the "nature of government is physical coercion," for the "government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force...
LIFE PICTORIAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD, by the editors of LIFE and Rand McNally; 600 pp.; illustrated...
...instead of miles of intricate wiring, Cray developed Control Data's reliable and relatively cheap ($1,250,000) 1604 computer, thus enabling the company to introduce its solid-state computer on the commercial market neck and neck with the industry giants. But with success came new headaches. Sperry Rand, alleging that Norris & Co. were using pirated Sperry Rand trade secrets, sued to enjoin them from capitalizing on any more of the know-how they had picked up before the mass decampment. Norris' rebuttal: in the fast-moving electronics industry, there is no such thing as a meaningful trade...
Through the Heavens. The Sperry Rand suit remains unsettled, but Norris and colleagues are confidently pushing ahead. On the strength of the 1604's immediate success, Control Data raised the money to develop two desk-size computers and one medium-size one. Also under development is Control Data's most ambitious effort yet-the huge, advanced-design 6600 computer which will sell for between $8 million and $12 million...