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UNIVAC, Remington Rand's big $1,000,000 electronic brain, is going into the insurance business. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. is installing one of the machines at its Manhattan home office to work five days a week assembling and analyzing basic actuarial statistics ordinarily handled by clerks, thus releasing them for other jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, may 10, 1954 | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

Schine's obsession with the question of power is also illustrated by his strange preoccupation with Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. In his days in Adams he used to say over and over again that this was his "favorite book" because it illustrated the importance of power and what a sham altruism was. He used to have long intense discussions with this girl on the subject, but she never succeeded in arguing him out of his position...

Author: By World Wide, | Title: Schine at Harvard: Boy With the Baton | 5/7/1954 | See Source »

Places to go seem nowadays limited only by the size of your pocketbook and the number of towns listed in the latest Rand McNally Gazetteer. But Bermuda, Nassau, Florida, Washington, New York, and the Vermont ski trails perennially remain the spring vacation favorites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bermuda and Southland Call April Travelers From Study | 3/24/1954 | See Source »

Because of the confusion that the senator has stirred in this country we badly need a stand taken on such principles. Not by acquiescence and fear can we fight demagogues such as McCarthy. Marcia De Gunzberg 57 Ann E. Rand '57 and 27 other Radcliffe students

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEMALE ATTACKERS | 1/22/1954 | See Source »

...Chalmers, Richard P. Chapman, Jr., Robert Dubinsky, Eric Franck, Grey Hodnett, Henry C. Holmes, Alfred M. Hoyt (Capt.), David C. Jordan, Frederick W. Kaufmann, Archibald I. Leyashmeyer, George W. McGarrity, Thomas B. Molholm, Grayson M. P. Murphy, III, Francis L. S. Newell, Stephen Parker, James K. Polese, Clifford A. Rand, Jr., Stephen P. Reibel, Michael S. Robertson, Erik J. Stapper, Ingvars J. Vitands, Harry J. Wexler, John M. P. Donovan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 180 Athletes Win Letters For Competition in Fall, 1953 | 12/18/1953 | See Source »

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