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...moves brought joy to landless peasants and urban workers but were resented by great landowners, who fear the loss of their power. Similarly, the conservative Moslem mullahs dislike the freedom of women and the decree that shrine lands are to be shared among the peasants. It is probably significant that the soldier who tried to kill the Shah last week came from southern Iran near the nation's religious capital of Qum, a hotbed of anti-Shah feeling...
...Your description of computers as "waited upon by crisp, young, white-shirted men who move softly among them like priests serving a shrine" brought smiles to myself and my fellow programmers. At a certain research installation we had a computer that would periodically begin rather violent vibrations whenever the random access unit was used...
...leading figures of his day. Sir Max was also one of the most delightful human beings who ever lived: tolerant, unassuming, a witty conversationalist, unfailingly kind. To know Max was to cherish him, and as a consequence, his friends and admirers have converted his niche into something of a shrine...
Toward evening's end, Johnson hustled his guests into a waiting limousine, sped through the almost deserted, post-midnight Washington streets to the Lincoln Memorial. Aware that Yameogo wanted especially to see the shrine, Johnson ordered that the spotlight illuminating the seated Lincoln figure be left on. As a Secret Serviceman beamed a flashlight, Johnson escorted the Yameogos up the stairs and into the memorial. There they paused, as Yameogo caught his first glimpse of the massive, brooding figure. "Formidable! Formidable!," he whispered in French. On the trip back to Blair House, Yameogo and Johnson quoted to each other...
Arranged row upon row in air-conditioned rooms, waited upon by crisp, young, white-shirted men who move softly among them like priests serving in a shrine, the computers go about their work quietly and, for the most part, unseen by the public. Popping up across the U.S. like slab-sided mushrooms, they are the fastest growing element in the technical arsenal of the world's most technologized nation. In 1951 there were fewer than 100 computers in operation in the U.S.; today 22,500 computers stand in offices and factories, schools and laboratories-four times as many...