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...Communist propaganda apparatus is busy nowadays with intramural squabbling between the Russians and Chinese, but its main purpose remains: to discredit the free world, through ideological friends and dupes as well as through agents. It enlists a network of ostensibly independent papers, stoops to clumsy but temporarily harassing forgeries usually purported to be U.S. documents showing American diplomats engaged in subversion of neutralist governments. It can spark ventures like the protest movement against the execution in 1953 of the convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were able to claim in one of their last petitions that "never have more...
When an executive can instantly reach all his contacts, wherever they may be, by television, he will have little reason for leaving home. One of Clarke's more frightening thoughts is that every man on earth will eventually have his own telephone number and will carry personal apparatus that will permit him to be called, even by people who have no idea where...
...Robert H. Hamlin, professor of Public Health and an author of the report, commented yesterday, "By establishing a high level decision-making apparatus under a new Commissioner of Health and Hospitals, we could start to remedy BCH's unfortunate legacy, compiled through lack of planning...
Other word commands are "X," "Y" and "Z," which call for motion in one of three directions. The astronaut can also say "stop," to end whatever action is going on, or "cage" to shut down the whole apparatus. "Stop-plus" and "stop-minus" might be used to switch on the gyro apparatus that keeps his attitude stabilized within two different degrees of accuracy...
...voice command apparatus has yet been built, but the Honeywell engineers say that all its components can be available in the near future. And they are satisfied that the astronauts will approve. There will be no uncomfortable gadgets hitched to their tongues or eyes; all they will need do is speak clearly in a simple, natural code. The computer will pay no attention to the rest of their speech-at least as long as they are careful not to use the code words in meaningful combinations...