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More than most youthful industries, the burgeoning U.S. computer business is dominated by giants-IBM, Philco, Sperry Rand. A notable exception is an aggressive young Minneapolis firm with the electronic-era name of Control Data. In four years, Control Data has risen from the brink of financial ruin to such strength that on occasion it can even push the big boys around. The formula, explains professorial William C. Norris, Control Data's 50-year-old president, is disarmingly simple: "Aim for a piece of the market and then do a better job than anyone else...
...Deserters. Control Data was born when Norris and eleven colleagues deserted Sperry Rand in a body, touching off one of the electronics industry's bitterest Donnybrooks. Norris and his engineering team had had their own research firm from 1946 until 1952, when Remington Rand bought it. After Remington Rand merged with Sperry in 1955, Norris became a vice president and general manager of the Univac division, but his research team was dismembered. When his men asked him to lead them in setting up a new company, Norris agreed...
...this has led many Western observers in Moscow to conclude that Russia has little, if any, civil defense planning, such a view is sharply questioned in a forthcoming book, Civil Defense in the Soviet Union, by Rand Corp. Analyst Leon Gour...
...Conrad Nagel-Jones flew down to Rio. where, at 27, he helped to write budgets and civil air codes, chose airport locations, taught pilots, and primed local industries to supply spare parts. After four exhilarating years, fearful of becoming an expatriate, Jones returned to California and signed on with Rand Corp., the Air Force's private brain factory. There he wrote a classic study which demonstrated that jet power would make massive military airlift economically feasible...
...Sperry Rand Corp. does 48% of its business with the Government. Among its projects: prime contractor for the Army's Sergeant surface-to-surface missile...