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Among the nightmares that might disturb the sleep of any professional stock trader is the vision of seeing himself replaced by a computer. The fear is real, even if the prospect is not immediate. Computers could easily match buyers' bids and sellers' asking prices, record deals and make entries in the accounts -at least for routine transactions. On the nation's stock exchanges, however, securities are still bought and sold in face-to-face auctions, partly because of the entrenched interests of their members and the encrusted practices of history...
Personnel director John B. Butler had earlier issued a statement disclosing that the Personnel office would "not be available for a 'confrontation' designed to disturb normal business...
...company's architect, Edward Durell Stone, "the creation of a rural atmosphere was the name of the game." Pepsi planted thousands of daffodils, flowering trees and evergreens. The result enhances the quiet atmosphere, benefits non-employees who want to visit the grounds (on weekends), and does not disturb property values of the surrounding residential community...
...These are the tragic consequences of a lack of prudence," Cyrankiewicz told the nation. "Hostile forces are trying to create new centers of anarchy, disturb the rhythm of normal work in factories and disorganize the life of the country." They included anarchists, hooligans and criminal elements, he said. He threatened that "organs of militia, the security service and cooperating organs are under obligation to take up all legal means of enforcement-including the use of weapons against all persons committing acts of violence...
...pace. About as often as the planet Pluto swings around the sun, Congress does indeed bestir itself, examines the archaic rules by which it conducts the nation's business and gently blows away some of the accumulated dust of more than 180 years. But never enough to disturb one tradition -the hallowed rule of seniority-that has often prevented Congress, whether liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican, from working effectively to represent the will of the electorate...