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...reasons still being investigated, a computer in New York City had come to believe it was overloaded with calls, and it started to reject them. Alerted to New York's troubles, dozens of backup computers across the U.S. automatically switched in to take up the slack -- only to exhibit the same bizarre symptoms. People trying to place long-distance calls all over the world suddenly began to hear busy signals and recorded messages blandly informing them that "all circuits" were busy...
...entire country (with the exception of the military) is suffocating in a technological vacuum. According to a delegate of a U.S. computer exhibit in the Soviet Union, many Russians are amazed when they first see that a Xerox machine "knows" how to copy the Russian alphabet...
Scenarios for a Soviet invasion of Western Europe have always had a touch of paranoid fantasy about them. In the late 1940s, when Western Europe was weak and virtually defenseless, the Soviet Union itself was exhausted and overextended. Yes, Joseph Stalin "conquered" Eastern Europe -- Exhibit A in the charge of Soviet expansionism -- but he did so in the final battles of World War II, not as a prelude to World War III. The Red Army had filled the vacuum left by the collapsing Wehrmacht. By the early 1950s, any Kremlin warmonger would have to contend with a Western Europe that...
...Sackler exhibit alternates drawings thought to be genuine Rembrandts with works similar in subject and form that are attributed to his followers. The tantalizing juxtaposition of student and master drawings invites visitors to either agree or disagree with the experts' attributions...
Although the exhibit has been publicized with an emphasis on the attribution perspective, the drawings should also be appreciated for their own sake. They are, above all, supreme examples of technical skill and stand alone as tributes to the Rembrandt style...