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...walking toward immigration at the Caracas terminal when sharp-eyed Venezuelan plainclothesmen decided she was too round to be real. When they searched Josefa Ventosa Jiménez, 22, they found that the fetching passenger from Rome was wearing a specially made girdle stuffed with 1,200 crisp $100 bills. Her companion, Alessandro Beltramini, 53, a Milan physician and longtime Communist, was also well padded: his vest yielded...
...Your description of computers as "waited upon by crisp, young, white-shirted men who move softly among them like priests serving a shrine" brought smiles to myself and my fellow programmers. At a certain research installation we had a computer that would periodically begin rather violent vibrations whenever the random access unit was used...
...cameras. Without further fuss the incredible moon photos began to come down in a steady stream. In 1.3 seconds they made the long journey from the moon to J.P.L.'s control station in the Mojave Desert. They jumped by microwave to Pasadena, appeared in crisp detail on fine-grained, 1,152-line picture tubes and were transformed into the standard 500-line pictures of U.S. commercial television. Never had so many people had so intimate a look at the full glory of high technical achievement...
Arranged row upon row in air-conditioned rooms, waited upon by crisp, young, white-shirted men who move softly among them like priests serving in a shrine, the computers go about their work quietly and, for the most part, unseen by the public. Popping up across the U.S. like slab-sided mushrooms, they are the fastest growing element in the technical arsenal of the world's most technologized nation. In 1951 there were fewer than 100 computers in operation in the U.S.; today 22,500 computers stand in offices and factories, schools and laboratories-four times as many...
Heavy rain had fallen during the night, but Sunday dawned crisp and clear for the dedication of the new brick Christian Union Baptist Church on the outskirts of Jackson, Miss. Nearly 400 people were on hand for the ceremony, which was a landmark in the religious history of the South. Christian Union, a Negro church set afire by white extremists last July, was rebuilt with the help of an interracial group of Mississippians who call themselves the Committee of Concern...