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NCR also suits AT&T's long-term computer strategy. The two companies' machines are largely compatible, using the same operating software, called Unix, invented by AT&T in 1969. As a result, they would be able to integrate their product lines rather than face the dilemma of having to...
Take The Review, Please--At Dartmouth, not everyone is so fond of James O. Freedman '57, the college president who is also a top contender for Harvard's presidency. Just ask the folks at The Dartmouth Review, the school's notorious right-wing magazine and troublemaker. Review members, who have...
Sometimes the mood is pugnacious. "He would make a good president [of Harvard], but we will fight you to keep him," quips Myrtle Scott, the president of the University of Indiana's faculty council. Indiana president Thomas Ehrlich '56 is a contender for the Harvard presidency.
Major's victory was also a decisive setback for the political fortunes of Michael Heseltine, the former Defense Minister who led the charge against Thatcher and was considered the top contender for her job after he won 152 votes in the first round of a party-leadership contest two weeks...
The New York Governor's spin doctors may be trying too hard to burnish his lackluster re-election victory. Cuomo's percentage of 53.5%, they note, was more than the 53.2% garnered in 1950 by another three-term Governor and one- time presidential contender: Thomas E. Dewey. Wow.