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...Porcellian Club call the "Bicycle Room." I don't know why they call it that--most of the members wouldn't dream of riding a bicycle--but that's the place, the only place except the garden out back, where they allow non-members and women. Up the forbidden staircase lie more rooms, including one where club members gather together to decide who will get new keys...
...Cabinet appointees the prestige outweighs the financial burdens. The only person known to have refused a top job solely because of a potential conflict was Clifford Hansen, Reagan's first choice for Interior Secretary, whose family holds grazing rights on federal lands. Such a conflict would have been forbidden, justifiably, even under previous rules...
Computer crooks have developed a whole bag of electronic tricks. One is the so-called Trojan Horse. Like the famed ruse used by the Greeks to penetrate Troy, it helps an interloper get into forbidden recesses of a computer. The mischiefmaker slyly slips some extra commands into a computer program (the instructions by which the machine performs a given task). Then when another programmer with higher clearance runs the program, he will unwittingly trigger the covert instructions. These unlock the guarded areas, just as the Greek soldiers hidden in the horse unlocked Troy's gates. The culprit might then...
These were mere toys, however, compared with the persistent and half-forbidden dream of an artificial man.-* St. Albertus Magnus, the 13th century German philosopher, was said to have spent 30 years constructing a servant of "deceptively human appearance" out of metal, wood, glass, wax and leather. This creature allegedly opened the door to Albertus' cell at the Dominican monastery in Cologne, asked visitors what they wanted and even engaged them in polite conversation. The end of the legend was that Albertus' celebrated pupil, Thomas Aquinas, smashed the robot to pieces because he considered it demonic. The Swiss...
...quality. Darci's precocious fame is not without precedent: at City Ballet, Patricia McBride, Suzanne Farrell and Gelsey Kirkland all came to prominence at about her age. Still the clamor for Darci has surprised the company-which promotes its repertory rather than its stars-and Balanchine. He has forbidden interviews with her. Darci's career is only a few months old, yet her parents are already beset by promoters who are seeking endorsements. That's how fast a new sunbeam travels...