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...play R.U.R., Czech Author Karel Capek, the man who coined the term robot, conjured up an army of mechanical monsters that succeeded in taking over the world. Today milder, real-life versions of such creatures are starting to find places in factories and plants, and what they are taking over is a number of industry's most toilsome chores. Unlike other automated machinery, which is usually stationary and must be manned by production workers, these so-called industrial robots can be moved from job to job and programmed to perform tasks virtually on their...
PUSEY: Well, let me state something else and leave some of this to the Deans. In the Faculty Meeting, I would say no one, there were no speeches urging a more severe penalty. There were a good many speeches urging a milder or really no penalty at all, but simply a kind of warning. The action of the Administrative Board was supported by at least five to one of the people present...
...Mallinckrodt in a dramatic display of their moral revulsion at the presence on campus of recruiters from a napalm manufacturer. They made their point in a way that no petition or rally on the steps of Memorial Church could have. They initiated an intensity of discussion that no milder from of protest could have. They did not hold Dr. Leavitt all night--only seven hours in the afternoon. They did not assault him. They did nothing to require the use of outside police force. To impose upon a randomly selected group of these protestors the hardship of probation...
...commandeered by threatening to beat up the previous M.C.-Mailer described in detail his search for a usable privy on the premises. Excretion, in fact, was his preoccupation of the night. "I'm here because I'm like L.B.J.," was one of Mailer's milder observations...
...letter of protest was much milder than most of the antiwar mail that enters the White House each week, but it had its own special kick. "Viet Cong terrorism is real," it said. "So are the innocent victims of U.S. bombing, strafing and shelling." It went on to describe the war in Viet Nam as "an overwhelming atrocity." What made the letter unusual was that it was signed by 49 members of the International Voluntary Service, a private Peace Corps-like organization whose 170 staffers in Viet Nam exemplify the best of the U.S.'s outgoing altruism (TIME, April...