Word: abacus
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Clearly, though, Russia is no longer the passive pastoral society that quivered before Stalin. The Kremlin will increasingly feel the pressures of an urban culture that is no longer resigned to an indefinitely receding Utopia. Communism's Kafka-and-abacus stage is already being overtaken by its Pasternak-and-hi-fi era. Affluent Communists might not be any easier to live with. But they would certainly have more to live...
...design is the basis of one of the oldest games in the world, ancestor of the abacus and of backgammon, dominoes and mah-jongg. Its most popular U.S. incarnation-called Kalah-is the life work of a spry 82-year-old retired financial counselor, who is suddenly hard put to keep up with the demand...
...month to prime borrowers). But few complain about its charges because Hang Seng backs many struggling entrepreneurs-reportedly including Hong Kong's bookies-who find it difficult to get credit elsewhere. Hang Seng figures that it will prosper so long as Hong Kong does. Fingering an abacus behind his 8-ft.-long teak desk. Chairman Ho says: "Hong Kong's future is good for at least ten years, possibly 20." After that. Hang Seng will doubtless be the first to find another green pasture...
...theatre people, if you seek something akin to the ring of truth (that is). Whether you add or subtract largely depends on which way the warm wind blows; when a number of The Good Woman's company quit in desperation last week, the breeze ran swift and hot. My abacus lost track utterly, trying to keep count amid such blustery meteorology and all. You sometimes wonder why such a modest little show as this one should involve these higher mathematics and unsettling climatics...
...Began. In San Jose, Calif., after International Business Machines Corp. installed a large electronic computer in a new plant, Mathematician William Mitchell equipped it with a glass-enclosed Chinese abacus and a sign reading: "In case of emergency, break glass...