Go, Sell It on the Mountain

Article Abstract:

The computer age is reaching for new heights - twenty-one thousand feet above the air on Mt. Everest. The president of a big distributor for Columbia Data Products Inc. is taking a company donated computer with him on a Mt. Everest ascent. Far from being a publicity stunt, W.R. Beig claims that the computer will be very useful in coordinating the many men, animals, and tons of equipment which will be spread out in many camps during the climb.

Computers, Laws, regulations and rules, Digital computers, Services

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Oxford and all that jazz

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Meyer, who started at Oxford in 1956, had unexpected success making the imprint a leader in American Black history, broadcasting studies, the Civil War, and jazz music research. He comments on his career, especially the long list of popular and scholarly jazz books he edited or published.

Interview, Bibliography, Jazz music, Jazz, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), Meyer, Sheldon

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Thomas Merton's durable Mountain

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A classmate of Trappist mystic Merton from Columbia Univ. in the 1930s describes Merton's spiritual journey, and how a chance meeting more than a decade later lead to publication of 'The Seven Storey Mountain'. The book was an unexpected best seller and is considered a religious classic.

Publishing industry, Works, Religious literature, Theology, Catholic, Catholic theology, Harcourt Brace and Co., HBJ, Reformed Cistercians of the Strict Observance, Merton, Thomas

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