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...more indication that the HYRC has lost its right to boast of being both the biggest and the best undergraduate organization in the Yard. Members of the HYRC, past and present, can only be ashamed of their association with an organization which has now degenerated to the very cheapest level of political activity. Robert W. Haney...
...Aramco is always obsequiously anxious not to jeopardize a deal which is one of oildom's most profitable. At 40? a barrel (v. $1.03 in the U.S.), Arabian Oil is one of the world's cheapest to produce, sells for $1.90 on the world market. From the beginning, Aramco's operations have been an exemplary display of enlightened management. In 1950, seeing the handwriting writ large across the Middle East by Britain's gathering troubles in Iran, Aramco increased the Saud share in the oil profits to 50%, the Middle East's first...
...over again, in the early hours of Sunday morning, delegate after delegate in the United Nations rose to speak of "momentous events" as the British and French prepared to move in on Egypt, and as the Soviets, grasping the opportunity of Western disalliance to achieve one of the cheapest coups in world history, silenced the short-lived democracy in Hungary. Anyone who listened to the radio bulletins that interrupted the General Assembly session from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. Sunday--"Goodbye for now...Remember our souls...It is too late...the Russians are here...Help, help, help..."---knows that from...
...Cheapest Machine. "The ultimate achievement of biocontrol," says Engineer Schafer, "may be the control of man himself . . . Enslavement could be imposed upon the vanquished as a condition of peace, or through the threat of hydrogen bombing. Biocontrol could make this enslavement complete and final, for the controlled subjects would never be permitted to think as individuals. A few months after birth, a surgeon would equip each child with a socket mounted under the scalp and electrodes reaching selected areas of brain tissue. A year or two later, a miniature radio receiver and antenna would be plugged into the socket. From...
...once-human being, thus controlled, would be the cheapest of machines to create and operate. The cost of building even a simple robot, like the Westinghouse mechanical man, is probably ten times that of bearing and raising a child...