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...electric typewriters. But its most revolutionary feat was to usher in the computer age. With vision and drive, IBM increased the electronic brain power of American business and then spread that boon around the world. In the 1960s and '70s, roughly two-thirds of all computers sold bore the IBM trademark. The company was so overpowering that the eight major computer firms were commonly known as IBM and the Seven Dwarfs...
...copy of the book. Mitford saw the point of making the narrator "dim," but asked, "Would Julia and her brother and her sister all be in love with him if he was?" Irons asked himself the same question when he was assigned the role. "Is this character going to bore the audience terribly?" he wondered. "He certainly bores the pants...
...Harvard--was picked. In the Medical School Area, clerical and technical workers voted down union representation, another leftover struggle bound to continue. The Med Area power plant finally cleared its legal hurdles, many years and dollars behind schedule. The "revolutionary" Core Curriculum became fully implemented, but many courses bore a disturbing similarity to their predecessors in General Education. The Corporation sold $50 million worth of Citibank stock in accordance with its policy established in the late 70s--to divest itself of holdings dealing with the South African government--but was too bashful to tell anyone about it. Administrators and Faculty...
...pulled up to Washington's National Press Club not in a sleigh, but in a dark blue Dodge. Dressed in his customary rumpled civics, Presidential Assistant Lyn Nofziger, 57, bore little resemblance to St. Nick. Fortunately the illusion improved slightly after Nofziger sausaged himself into the red-and-white threads of Santa Claus. He inherited the Santa job when he agreed to serve as honorary chairman of a benefit for Washington's Children's Hospital National Medical Center. "It was really tough sledding," said Nofziger...
That, and all the couple's later products, bore the touch of Victorian England and became known in fashion circles as the Laura Ashley look. A succession of items, including striped garden smocks with three large pockets in front, and long, flowing dresses, sold well in the U.S. and Britain. In 1961 the Ashleys set up their first factory in an old dance hall in Carno, Wales. Opening an experimental shop in Kensington in 1968 convinced them that they could sell their products better than wholesalers could and, with out middlemen, at lower prices...