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...electrical plant in Staffordshire, two impulsive canteen waitresses pinned the visiting Russian and planted moist, ruby-red busses on his cheeks. A moment later, in high good humor, Georgy stepped into a freight elevator, watched the steel door clank shut and cracked: "Ah ha, I see you have an Iron Curtain here. We've discarded it in Russia...
Fast Answers. With the marvels of the automated factory has come the automated office, manned by electronic brains that set up orders, encode instructions to lesser machines, post accounts, send out bills, write letters and clank out profit and loss statements. One of the newest of the great brains is the $5,500,000 RCA-built Bizmac, now being installed in Detroit by the Army Ordnance Tank-Automotive Command to keep track of tank and auto parts all over the world. Operators who sit at Bizmac's console can store away on magnetic tape records of 155,000 types...
...pair go to Paris, where the father himself learns something about modern technique from a salesgirl in her teeens while an experienced woman of the world takes charge of the son's education. The mechanics of this upside-down situation run smoothly enough until near the end, when they clank to a stop with a rather sudden resolution...
Gloomy Surprise. As they do whenever an internal emergency requires, the Kremlin's leaders thus callously abandoned a foreign policy line that had scored considerable gains. With Molotov's words, the dovecote sound of Malenkov's "coexistence" and "good life" line gave way to the anvil clank of the old Stalinesque "tough" line. The first outside reaction was gloomy surprise. The London Stock Exchange dipped at the news. Columnist Stewart Alsop concluded that the Kremlin had made up its mind that "war is probable if not inevitable." Former Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, once Ambassador...
...promising start, and the new 20,000 Leagues, for all its mechanical clank and ponderousness, is something of a continuation. If Disney goes on at this rate, he will soon have compiled a film library of live-action legends to match his collection of animated fairy stories, and the one should be quite as suitable for periodic redistribution as the other...