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...same problems. Last week, at a conference in Chicago marking the 25th anniversary of the invention of the electronic computer, one speaker adumbrated a world another quarter-century from now when almost everyone would possess a computer the size of a cigarette package and almost as cheap. Frederic G. Withington of Arthur D. Little, Inc., described two opposing tendencies in the development of computers: the increasingly economical sharing of large computers by multiple users and the proliferation of minicomputers. If the second line is followed, then in a throwaway society Withington envisions a day when little computers will be "scattered...
...LOTHROP WITHINGTON...
...more than a week, Lothrop Withington's freshmen friends had been calling him a fool, a liar and worse. Well, he could swallow a live goldfish if he wanted to, and that was all there was to it. $10 said he couldn...
...freshmen were among the challengers. Two months after he swallowed the four-incher, Lothrop Withington and ten others, including Endicott Peabody II, complained that the Houses were rejecting the leaders of the freshman class and accepting mediocre upperclassmen. They were going to fight for a strict merit system...
...overheat the tail. Designers moved the engines to the underside of an enlarged tail. That, in turn, enabled them to increase the area of the pivoting wing so that the plane could take off and land more slowly and silently. With that, said Boeing SST Engineering Director H. W. Withington last week, "Lockheed no longer has us beaten, as it thought it did last year." Replied Lockheed President Daniel J. Haughton: "The race will be close...