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...said Himmler, was "to find out, to fight and destroy all open and secret enemies of the Führer, the National Socialist movement and our racial resurrection." Two of the guard's most notorious members were Adolf Eichmann, who was later executed for directing the deportation of Jews to concentration camps, and Josef Mengele, the evil Auschwitz doctor who is still thought to be at large. Known for their viciousness and fanaticism, SS squads rounded up Jews and resisters in villages in Germany and throughout the rest of Europe and shot them on the spot...
Critics of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) program have questioned the feasibility of the laser and particle-beam weapons, sensing and guidance devices, battle management stations and other hardware necessary for a system that would intercept and destroy enemy missiles before they reached their targets in the U.S. But until recently they have largely overlooked what may be the biggest stumbling block to an effective defense against a massive nuclear missile attack: the computer software needed to make the system work. Says Thomas Probert, director of computer and software engineering for the Institute for Defense Analyses...
...general idea that change is popular, and therefore increases sales, threatens all kinds of cherished institutions. If lots of people can destroy an institution by telling a pollster that they prefer soft drinks to be sweeter and lighter, will the next step be for meat-packers to start producing a low-calorie hamburger by just adding a lot of airy filler? And will somebody then try combining it with goat cheese? Is anything safe? Will Hershey bars be filled with raisins and Oreo cookies with pink icing? Will apple pie be made à la mode with Tofutti...
...philosopher," he says. If pressed as to what he thinks the world will do with nuclear weapons, he admits that he is worried. At the same time he ascribes his own sense of practicality to the world: "Human beings are not fools. We are not likely to destroy everything. We must leave our traditions to the generations...
...having concerns other than making a buck, have left a lot of good stuff alone - if it ain't broke, they don't fix it. Unlike Americans. City of the Future (1966-67) shows impossibly curvy, port-holed buildings, mocking a postwar attitude that led the country to destroy and deface too much of the past for Crumb's taste: "There is a big wonderful future tomorrow full of monumental achievements!...Everyone will be tuned into everything that's happening all the time! No one will be left out. We will all be normal!" Crumb's family was anything...