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...city's sky-high alcoholism rate and the fleas, which, according to Caen, "bite only tourists and newcomers" because the natives are "so full of garlic." At times, Garlic Lover Caen sounds as if he had distilled his high-calorie prose from the Reader's Digest's Picturesque Speech Department. Sample: "The sidewalk flower stands exuding such clouds of heavy perfume that their owners should be arrested for fragrancy...
Appearing first in Astounding Science Fiction in 1946 as "Meihem In Ce Klasrum" by Dolton Edwards and later in condensed form in Reader's Digest, the manuscript was recently (March 5) acquired for reprinting in Science World...
...force today has a squadron of jet fighters manned entirely by women. But the Red marriage law could not change the way of a man with a maid overnight. Even among Communists, particularly in the back-country cadres, the notion of equality between men and women was hard to digest. Some local party leaders, in an effort to preserve male superiority, took over the functions of parents and arranged marriages accordingly...
...analyze a single missile test, R-W must check over an entire planeload of complex data that would ordinarily take years to digest. By using a $500,000 computer that it built specially for the job, R-W boils down the information in a matter of hours, can tell exactly how the thousands of parts worked-or failed to work. R-W's taskmaster role does not make it universally popular with the many contractors over whom it sits in technical judgment. The arguments are long, the complaints bitter. R-W is criticized for being highhanded, for spurring contractors...
...Army is restricted to a 200-mile range in its surface-to-surface missiles (on the theory that they could be launched 100 miles behind the lines and travel 100 miles beyond). Gone, therefore, was the dream of longer-range Army-built missiles that could (as the Army Information Digest recently said) attack "distant troop concentrations, marshaling areas and communication centers" and destroy "enemy missile sites, atomic stockpiles and airfields." The Army was assigned responsibility for point, i.e., local defense and the franchise on such radar-directed, land-to-air missiles as Nike, with a range of not more than...