Word: magnus
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...measures against the repressed black majority. Last week, more than a hundred police swooped down on a black squatters' encampment near Cape Town and trucked 1,300 homeless black men, women and children off to jail, before sending them to rural reservations. On the military front, Defense Minister Magnus Malan has warned South Africans that "the revolutionary effort against us has reached an extremely dangerous phase." The Pretoria government two weeks ago raised the defense budget by 30% to an all-time high of $2.6 billion. Said Finance Minister Owen Horwood: "In light of recent developments in and around...
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...