Word: logics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With STAR, controllers should rest easy. Built by a Lithuanian-born J.P.L. engineer named Algirdas Avižienis, 38, the computer consists of ten separate units, each designed to perform a specific function (computation, logic, communications, memory and monitoring). More important, some of the units always stand by as spares. Thus, if any of STAR'S working parts should falter, it can quickly mobilize a replacement...
Other grad student comments vary greatly, but almost all recognize Bailyn's essential academic decency-cloaked under a few layers of sharp, supra-rational logic. "He's very diplomatic," according to one department cliche, "on his own terms." According to another. "Bailyn's the kind of man who plays his cards inside his chest...
...reconnaissance. Ambassador David K.E. Bruce insisted that the U.S. made it clear when the bombing stopped that it would continue overflights. North Viet Nam's Xuan Thuy said there was no such agreement, tacit or explicit, between Hanoi and Washington: it is "an invented fable" that "contradicts all logic...
...does not require blind patriotism or total cynicism to boggle at the possibility of, say, General Westmoreland haled before such a bar of military justice. But Taylor's findings, like the statement of many a Supreme Court decision, are morally compelling, because of the lore and logic cited to support them. Beyond its direct application to Viet Nam, the book is a remarkable historic study of a line of social thought that many readers will begin by regarding as hopeless and legalistic, and end by admiring profoundly...
...that reason, says Taylor, "millions are alive today who would otherwise be dead." To the notion that such palliatives be junked on the grounds that if war were even worse men might be more inclined to abolish it, Taylor replies simply: "These are counsels of desperation with little logic or experience to commend them...