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This caused us little inconvenience, however, because an unknown computer operator had previously discovered that one swift kick at the center of the random access unit and precisely two feet off the floor would keep the computer still for weeks. Familiarity does breed contempt -even for computers...
...that computers will be masters, not slaves. Either laws must be passed to prevent displacement of men by machines or men must destroy the machines. The only thing machines can produce is a total welfare state. To employ machines to do the work men did is to display contempt for men. Most of the men behind automation have never known what it is like to be displaced by a machine, and have never undergone the humiliation of "retraining." The dream world they have created is a nightmare to everyone else. ROBERT P. FITZGERALD Havertown...
...convention in Düsseldorf last week. This was not easy, for as the 3,500 delegates assembled in the austere exhibition hall, it was clear that many high-ranking C.D.U. leaders were sharply at odds with one another. Former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had made no secret of his contempt for Erhard and his policies. To the horror of C.D.U. strategists, he made plain his intention of saying so at the convention. "Praise or criticism," growled Adenauer, "it must come out in the open." In the end, however, Keynote Speaker Adenauer relented and gracefully pulled the worst of his punches...
Herded Fishermen. What made the festivities unusual is the heritage of bitterness between the two nations. For 35 years Korea was a Japanese colony, and its people either were ruthlessly suppressed as rebels or treated with contempt as second-class citizens. On gaining its independence after the war, Korea adopted a hard-nosed policy toward Japan. South Korean President Syngman Rhee banned Japanese fishing boats within 60 miles of the Korean coastline. Over the years the Koreans seized a total of 326 Japanese trawlers, and still hold 182 of them. Nearly 4,000 Japanese fishermen were herded into a detention...
...have infiltrated the tennis courts. It becomes apparent that the members are either vulgar or epicene, and need a supercilious, tuxedo-skinned British barman to insult and be insulted by. The two sons present would like the two fathers present to drop dead. When the girls express their contempt by simultaneously breaking wind and then pelt the place with tennis balls, plaster spills, roof beams totter, and it becomes clear that Kopit is one of the cosmic jokesmiths who want playgoers to read books of revelation between the wisecracks. What Tennis may portend is that self-contained worlds, either private...