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...journalist," he once said, "I am ? in command of a small sector in the very front trenches of this battle for freedom." For Henry Robinson Luce, the battle ended last week. On the 44th anniversary of TIME's first issue, America's greatest maker of magazines died in Phoenix of a coronary occlusion...
Johnson might have pointed out the specific advantages of regionalism--economies of scale and coordination of sector growth--in providing underdeveloped countries with transportation, communications, and other requirements for economic take-off. The President should also have realized that practical regionalism involves considerable political sacrifices to development criteria on the part of both Congress and recipient countries. Congress might have to help a somewhat unfriendly country if it were located in the middle of an optimum region for economic growth. And once regions were established, legislators could not halt aid to a specific country without hurting growth in several other...
...onetime $100-a-month U.C.L.A. logic instructor who is equally adept in academese and computerese, Palevsky aims to keep S.D.S. at that nimble size where "we need optimize our strategy only in a small sector of the market." S.D.S. may already be growing out of that league. Last December the company delivered the first of its Sigma family of realtime, third-generation computers. The most complex, Sigma 7, costs up to $1,000,000, can serve more than 200 users simultaneously on a time-sharing basis. Sigma thus represents a big step into highly competitive commercial data processing...
Once these people leave their jobs, they fade out of what he calls the "public sector" of life. Many of their friends are dead. Most of the time they are alone. Convinced that community service is a pastime for the educated or the rich dilettante, these people take little interest in volunteer projects, Putnam says...
...growing residential sector, Zingonia offers $7,000 apartments and $30,000 two-story villas. The area is separated from the industrial sector by a park, civic center, soccer stadiums, swimming pools and tennis courts. Zingone has already almost recouped some $10 million he invested in a smaller community ("Quartiere Zingone") outside Milan that houses 8,700 people, and has attracted such U.S. firms as Pfizer and International Harvester. He expects to get his $40 million back from Zingonia-with a handsome profit-by 1974, when he turns its municipal buildings and 45 miles of public roads over...