Word: remington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, five months and four days. That is perhaps two years longer than some of his former colleagues in Manhattan-recalling how he stomped out of his job at the Guggenheim Museum-would have predicted. Expectably, he has stirred things up, but aside from having to display some Remington cowboy art that he loathes...
...decades used striking and sometimes beautiful work. But only with Postmaster General J. Edward Day has the U.S. strayed so radically from the more usual practice of using the department's own generally competent, occasionally torpid designers; in 1961 the department reproduced a painting by Frederic Remington and in 1962 one by Winslow Homer. National Gallery Director John Walker persuaded Day to try a live artist this year, got Art News magazine to give $500 to each of the contestants chosen to enter. The five artists-Buck-minster Fuller. Herbert Bayer. Josef Albers. Bradbury Thompson and Frasconi -were brought...
...attracted U.S. industry to the virtues of the nickel-cadmiums. Skil Corp. and Black & Decker sell cordless electric hand drills, hedge trimmers, grass clippers and other tools that are powered by a small nickel-cadmium power pack built into the tool or strapped to the user's belt. Remington, Schick and Norelco have battery-run shavers. Sunbeam has a cordless shaver and kitchen mixer, General Electric a toothbrush, Fairchild a home movie camera. Nickel-cadmiums also power a growing variety of other products, such as flashlights, cigarette lighters, radios, television sets and walkie-talkies...
Seventeen years ago, when two University of Pennsylvania professors developed the first electronic computer, International Business Machines sniffed that it had no commercial future. But in the early '50s, when computers made by Remington-Rand began replacing IBM punch-card machines. IBM rushed into building computers and quickly took over most of the market. Lured by IBM's success, other office-equipment makers and electronics companies rushed into computers and waited for the profits to roll in. With the exception of a lone company, they are still waiting...
Some Went Running. Rather than face further losses, Royal McBee, Underwood and General Mills quit making computers. Former RCA President John Burns lost his job largely because of RCA's huge computer-development costs. Pioneer Remington-Rand, which was merged in 1955 into Sperry-Rand, failed to capitalize on its headstart, and its Univac division is still deeply in the red. In fact, besides IBM, the only company making money on computers is the smallest one-Minneapolis' Control Data (TIME. Nov. 24, 1961). Its formula: concentrating on only a few computers and aiming specifically for the scientific market...