Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was this new thing the U.S. was in? World War III? Could Armageddon begin with so feeble a fanfare as the muffled Battle of Korea? Could the pushbutton war of the physicists start among the grass roofs of a land where men had hardly caught up with Galileo? Was this the place and was this the way in which Marx and Jefferson came to final grips...
...were just as surprised as the Koreans. We had no idea whether the U.S. Government would have the guts to live up to its obligations here. At the same time we wondered if this was the beginning of World War III. But however mixed our emotions, the joy and relief of the Koreans were overpowering. For the first time in the long trip we felt we could hold up our heads among the Koreans...
According to Artist Caniff, a book publisher suggested some months ago that he ought to do an episode on cybernetics. He bought some books on the subject, but they only confused him. Then the Mark III cover story was published. Says Caniff...
...Mark III also gave me a picture of the computing machine. I had to know what it looked like and if it was transportable. Furthermore, I needed TIME's conjectures as to the machine's future possibilities. Your story pointed out what the machine could do, so I could explain its potentialities without getting technical. That was just what I needed. Steve Canyon is like me-he can't even do long division...
...Milton Caniff's own version of what happened to him after he read the Mark III cover appears below...