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...been at the University since last September, on leave from the Rand Corporation, doing research in military strategy and arms control. Rowan is working on a book covering this subject...
Roland N. McKean, Rand Corp.: The recession looks as if it will grow somewhat more severe. Most of the things proposed by the Administration are not likely to have much immediate effect on an upturn. I would look for the country's unemployment to get somewhat worse in the next three to six months...
Under the new system, the Rand is equal to 10 shillings ($1.40), and can be divided into 100 cents. Already the government has spent $21 million converting old-type cash registers and accounting machines to the new decimal system. But the chief beneficiaries of the changeover are South Africa's schoolchildren. For 135 years. South African schoolboys, like their brothers in England and the empire, have had to learn mathematics twice-first in the manner of the civilized world, which counts on ten fingers and decimalizes accordingly, and then in the English manner, which counts laboriously...
...came into being because President Eppert decided that computers were becoming too complex, that customers were waiting for something cheaper and simpler to operate. If he is right, Burroughs may at last be firmly established in a hotly competitive field dominated by International Business Machines and the Remington Rand division of Sperry Rand. It will also mark a dramatic turn in Burroughs' effort to transform itself from a somewhat stodgy old-line adding machine maker to a modern diversified company...
...admire the late Joe McCarthy, favor colonialism, back such causes as the "right" to exclude Negroes from certain neighborhoods, demand that students sign loyalty oaths, picket the movies Spartacus and Exodus because Dalton Trumbo (TIME, Jan. 2) wrote them. They take as their philosopher Novelist Ayn (Atlas Shrugged) Rand, who for a brooch wears a gold dollar sign to symbolize the values of selfcenteredness. On the other end of the spectrum are Kennedy supporters who find in the President's appeal to duty ("Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your...