People: Jan. 31, 1969

The newspaper ad placed by Honeywell Inc. to attract computer technicians was a high-class bit of copy and featured drawings of those two great authors of Principia Mathematica, Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and Bertrand Russell (1872-1967). The late Bertrand Russell? Hardly. At 96, he is very much alive at his home in Wales. And when he heard that Honeywell also makes anti-personnel bombs as well as computers, he was even more willing to carry out a lawsuit he had filed for unauthorized use of his name and picture. After dryly noting the "somewhat...

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