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Useless Compromise. Moscow could still stop the Pacific blasts with a stroke of the pen-by signing a test-ban treaty with adequate inspection guarantees against cheating. Time and again the Russians have refused to do so. Nevertheless, the eight "middlemen" at the conference (Brazil, Burma, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria and Sweden) also played the game by weighing in with a "compromise" plan of their own that would leave it up to individual countries to "invite" foreign inspectors to investigate suspicious explosions. It was a system tailor-made for nuclear cheating. Zorin and the Communists liked it; Dean...
...party diehards who would choke the debate. Most Russian special ists believe that the regime could not return to the rule of terror without a violent popular upheaval that would shake the nation to its roots. Says an old Russian adage: "If it is written with a pen, you can't remove it with a hatchet...
Scarce had she set her pen to sign...
...dates his urge to write from his sister Rose's arrival at puberty, leaving him behind in "the country of childhood." (It happens that his mother bought him a $10 typewriter around the same time.) His first writing coup was of a sort to make his father apoplectic. Pen-named as a woman, the 14-year-old Tom won a $25 Smart Set contest on the subject "Can a Good Wife Be a Good Sport?" He went on to be published in a magazine called Weird Tales, with a story titled, The Vengeance of Nitocris. Opening sentence: "Hushed were...
...beat the language barrier between man and machine. Itek has, in effect, hitched the digital computer to the draftsman's stylus. With a photoelectric light pen, the operator of an EDM can formulate engineering problems graphically (instead of reducing them to equations) on a console that looks like a flat, unflickering television screen. The operator's designs pass through the console into an inexpensive computer, which solves the problems and stores the answers in its memory banks in both digitalized form and on microfilm. By simply pressing buttons and sketching with the light pen, the engineer may enter...