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...week that Carroll and other members of the evaluating group had been "disappointed" by the decision. The official said that the company had received what was practically a letter of intent and was going to make the hardware order "momentarily" when it learned that Wyatt "virtually put forth an edict which declared a unilateral decision." Wyatt later explained to Hewlett-Packard, the official said, that although its machine had the necessary capability, which the Datapoint machine outline did not, he believed he could "make it do the job"--which the Hewlet-Packard official would require an efficiency rate of more...
...knew the boys' names like an Eliot House Master, Harvard pennants on the wall, and fine wood interiors. Gone, too, are the head shops, clothes stores and coffeehouses of the late '60s and early '70s, and with them the hippie vendors in front of Holyoke Center, removed by University edict last year over some Bicentennial nonsense or other. No matter: the chain stores have moved in and blended nicely, the hippies have adjusted themselves to market realities and gone really commercial, and some of the old college pump haunts--J. Press and Andover clothing stores for the young master, Cronin...
...into history or the primitive. They dealt with 18th century revolutions in Haiti, the impressions of a traveller who feels he is moving backwards in time as he enters the primitive Venezuelan jungle, and the introduction of the French Revolution to her Caribbean colonies: one ship brings both the edict emancipating slaves and the first guillotine. These historical novels spread out spectacles of lyrical description, rendering a fantastic American reality in overwhelming baroque detail...
...unprivileged get along with what for Americans seems an odd docility. But both Kaiser and Smith point out that for the majority of Soviet citizens, the minimal comforts of housing -however cramped (10 ft. sq. per person, by Lenin's edict)-and a regular diet-however spare (sausage, potatoes, cabbage)-are better than they had before. Especially to those older Russians who lived through the hunger of the war. conditions now seem acceptable. There are even hints of affluence -a few self-service stores, prepackaged goods. Some citizens feel rich enough to afford wigs, pets and facelifts. The wait...
...Germans notify the Vichy government that reprisals are called for. Anxious to please, the government, working through the Justice Department, sets up a kangaroo court which is known by the grimly evasive title "special section." The ministers of justice even supply their own reason for complying with the German edict - who knows how many Frenchmen will die at German hands otherwise...