Corporations: Fortune in Facsimile

At a time when most of the glamour stocks have lost their charm, a company with the distinctive name of Xerox still holds on to its appeal. Xerox owes all of its astonishing market success to a complicated, desk-sized machine prosaically called the 914 Office Copier. There is nothing prosaic about what the 914 does: without muss, fuss, delay or extensive training of an operator, it makes copies on ordinary paper of almost anything that will fit on its Qin. by 14-in. plate — including a child's doll. Last week, thanks to...

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