Word: sarnoffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orange Mink. "The important thing," says Robin Butler, "is simplicity and ingenuity." To that end, she tucks an apron around her Dior and cooks her own meals. Felicia Sarnoff, 37, second wife of the board chairman of NBC and mother of two small children, buys her clothes at Jax, Saks and Lord & Taylor, scorns "the group that thinks it's chic to whip over to Paris, sit around in hot, stuffy rooms and have 80 fittings." She is pleased with the trend to more and more formal dinners, which she prefers to "those mad mob scenes at cocktail parties...
...record $2 billion for electronic data-processing gear, ranging from $90,000 small computers to $5,500,000 machines capable of 2,500,000 calculations a second. So broad is the variety of computer users that there are more than 1,000 programming "languages"; last week RCA Chairman David Sarnoff urged that the scientists put their minds to devising a standard system to replace the "technological Tower of Babel." That will be difficult if only because computer technology is changing so rapidly. Most important, computers are being brought into the executive suite, are helping to make more and more executive...
Back to Back. This time the networks cried foul. And the Republicans cried chicken. CBS Chief Frank Stanton called it a "disturbing step backward in the progressive effort toward a better-informed public." NBC's Robert Sarnoff invited Johnson and Goldwater to appear back to back, or even face to face, on Meet the Press, which is exempt from the equal-time provision since it is a regularly scheduled interview show. Goldwater accepted. At week's end Johnson had yet to reply...
...appreciate a Hugo Gernsback idea, one must first know something about Hugo. He is 79. He is a member of the American Physical Society and a friend of people like David Sarnoff and Lewis Strauss. He coined the word television. He thought of radar roughly six months before bats did. From weightlessness to squeeze-package food, he described the problems of space travel as early as 1929. Every Christmas he puts out a pamphlet called Forecast, and in it he has not only predicted some inventions that have already come to be (like the telescoping ramps that hook...
After a two-year study of 250 major option plans, Economist John A. Menge of Dartmouth College found that during the 1950s former American Motors Chairman George Romney realized an after-tax profit of $564,000 on sales of his optioned shares, and RCA Chairman David Sarnoff pocketed $1,126,000 from his options. In the 1950s, according to Menge, these were some of the paper profits of executives who held on to most of their options: former Coca-Cola Chairman W. E. Robinson, $1,270,000; Clifford Hood, former president of U.S. Steel, $1,362,000; former General Electric...