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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Word from Grivas. Observers expected to see at least some glamorous, new Soviet equipment at last week's military parade in Nicosia to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Greek Cypriot uprising against the British. The parade was a disappointment, and the only Soviet weapons on display were trucks pulling old British field guns...
...Rome, Butcher Alberico Amati tried to be more subtle when an undertaker moved in next door, casting a pall over Amati's business. In reply, Amati propped up a pair of buffalo horns and insulting poems in his window; the display drew him an eight-month suspended sentence. His patience gone, Amati then got himself photographed in the newspapers with a two-finger corna defiantly aimed skyward. Tossed into jail, Amati was provisionally sprung last week pending an appeal of his original conviction-based on his claim that the buffalo horns were legal because they were inside his property...
...Viet Nam as a living laboratory in which to test their new weapons." A group of Labor M.P.s voiced "horror and indignation," demanded that Britain "disassociate" itself from U.S. policy in Viet Nam. In Washington, visiting British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart censured his hosts, acidly suggested that they "display what your Declaration of Independence called 'a decent respect for the opinions of mankind...
Those words, written by Federal District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr., galvanized civil rights forces last week into a display that may well become one of the most spectacular events of the Negro revolution. It is this week's 50-mile march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery to dramatize the Negro demands for voting rights, protected by a force of 1,863 Alabama National Guardsmen, 100 FBI men, 100 federal marshals, and 1,000 U.S. Army troops...