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...supreme triumph, since it would involve programming some 50 million unknowns and 5,000,000 constants all in motion. The Kremlin has endowed a Central Economic-Mathematical Institute to explore the feasibility of a network of 50 key computer stations across the U.S.S.R. linked to a "Big Daddy" blinker in Moscow. Presumably the monster would constantly engorge raw data on the economy at the local level, process it in Moscow, and electronically burp prices and other economic orders back to the provinces...
...question was how to stop the Anzoátegui. Navy planes flashed blinker signals ordering the vessel to head for Puerto Rico. No answer from the Anzoátegui, as it plowed steadily southward toward Brazil, where, in the words of a government official, "asylum is a Brazilian tradition.'' When the hijackers ignored the orders to change course, the planes swooped down to fire rockets nearby. The hijackers seemed to be in for a rough time...
Within ten minutes, two swept-wing U.S. jets whooshed over, buzzed the Western Union at high speed, encouraging several Cuban 6-26 light bombers in the area to withdraw. Four hours later, as the Western Union was half a mile off Baracoa, a U.S. destroyer arrived, openly blinker signaled the Western Union an offer of full protection. Minutes passed, and then the Cubans approached the schooner, shouting "Key West." The Western Union eased off for home. The tight moment spelled a clear message: to rescue the Western Union, the U.S. was prepared to use force...
...Soon the blinker lights were flashing, and the loudspeakers aboard ship had an electrifying announcement: "Now hear this. All hands muster at quarters. There's a woman aboard...
...When the Nautilus had quietly backed into the Thames River, made a smooth 180° turn and started pushing its massive, whalelike snout south toward Long Island Sound, the abovedeck crew relaxed and waved to the workers lining the docks. At n a.m. on Jan. 17, the Nautilus' blinker snapped out a historic message: "Under way on nuclear power." The crew-and more than 60 special officers and civilians-were quietly jubilant...