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Devalued Brains. Cybernetics made Wiener famous. Even the Russians, who called him a "fat, cigar-smoking capitalist," adopted his ideas. Wherever he went he spoke eloquently of his fears that dependence on computers, if not carefully controlled, might someday devalue human brains...
...overseas Chinese are funneling in funds for investing in real estate and local businesses. Even Red China is profiting by Hong Kong's prosperity: since it sells more than 20 times as much to the colony as it buys, it earns much of its foreign exchange through the capitalist outpost at its doorstep...
Other actors, however, help to take the edge off the moralizing tone. As the coolie, Armand Pohan is properly oriental, properly obsequious, and even manages to sound natural when forced to mouth Marxist slogans. Rand Rosenblatt, the Judge, utters capitalist sophistries with deep-throated authority. And Terry Malick inadvertenly adds much-needed "ah-so" humor as a kimono-clad, Ernie Kovacs-like innkeeper...
...unusual position of a capitalist in love with a Communist country." That could be no one else but Cyrus Eaton, 80, and during his fourth Russian visit the Cleveland multimillionaire was happily pursuing his open-mouth policy. "It is difficult to be objective," he said. "But an old American saying says nothing succeeds like success. Everywhere in the Soviet Union I have seen this air of success and progress." And to go with American-style success, Eaton urged the Russians to take up that old American-style pastime: "Baseball. Honestly, I dream of seeing a World Series between Moscow...
...article describes at length several features of the capitalist system that the tourists encountered here, placing great emphasis on the slums of New York and Philadelphia, the high cost of private university education, and the lack of free medical care...