Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Custer's Last Stand. Color...
MILTON J. TATELMAN Western Reserve University Cleveland
...increasingly are what make business run. They not only handle such routine matters as paper work, payrolls, billing and inventories, but are also assuming a large role in production and decision making. Computers already control many of the production processes in the paper, petrochemical, petroleum and steel industries. At Western Electric's "Plant of Tomorrow" in Kansas City, they control the billing, shipping and warehousing, order materials, write the checks to pay for them, decide what to produce and in what quantity. The New York City Bar Association last week staged a mock trial in which it subpoenaed computerized...
...away the leader in the field, both in the U.S. and abroad. It has so far installed 13,000 computers in the U.S. and another 3,000 in Western Europe, where industry and laboratories are just beginning to computerize. The payoff: 74% of the U.S. computer market, a dominance that leads some to refer to the industry as "IBM and the Seven Dwarfs." The dwarfs, small only by comparison with giant IBM: Sperry Rand, RCA, Control Data, General Electric, NCR, Burroughs, Honeywell. The computers have also spawned the so-called "software" industry, composed of computer service centers and independent firms...
That is not surprising; the land that produced Sigmund Freud has a split personality on most matters. Its economy and government are run by a coalition of the cartel-minded Peoples' Party and the nationalization-minded Socialist Party. Austria has suffered less than its Western neighbors from inflation and labor strife because both parties agreed to let a government board rule on wage and price hikes. Almost 25% of Austria's economy is nationalized, including most of its basic industries, much of its banking, and two-thirds of its joint-stock companies...