Word: sages
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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International Business Machines Corp. had $300 million defense sales last year. Its computers man the SAGE air defense system, calculate missile paths, are going into the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System...
...Byzantine engineers unwittingly preserved a masterpiece of sculpture, the bearded head of an unknown sage or saint, which the expedition found in the bedding of the Byzantine road. The head apparently belonged to a statue which stood in the colonnade before the Persian invaders destroyed...
...democracy and parenthood is still pertinent. On the other hand, the New Woman that G.B.S. gleefully released from his inkwell has become the disenchanted genie of the modern home. The play ends up with too many points of view to make a point. Yet the canny showman salvages the sage, and the plot -girl meets boy, girl chases boy, girl gets boy-is as good as it always has been...
...Patronage. Just before O'Brien took over as President Kennedy's liaison representative to Congress, he conferred with Republican Dwight Eisenhower's man on the Hill, Bryce Harlow. From Harlow, O'Brien received a piece of sage advice: not to get too overtly involved with patronage problems. Said Harlow: "With patronage, you will have to turn down ten men for every one you say yes to. You make people unhappy instead of happy...
...Sunday, and Wednesday-evening songs and games for teenagers. A sign in the ground outside the building identified it as Marble Community Church, and this summer Pastor Drake and his congregation had things humming along so smartly that a reporter wrote a feature story about it in the weekly Sage of Glenwood Springs, Colo., 40 miles away...