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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commercial Press of collected what they regarded as the most accurate versions of the 468-odd works in the set, and reproduced the original Chinese character texts in facsimile. They are taken from manuscripts and woodblocks relatively free from type graphical errors and editorial alterations One error in the printing or editing of a Chinese character alters its meaning completely, making accuracy extremely important...
...TYPICAL AMERICAN BOYS (Mercury). They look typical enough-conventional haircuts, clean shirts-but when it comes to singing, Chad Mitchell and friends pride themselves on being latter-day Weavers, a combo with a conscience. They specialize in satirical numbers such as Which Hat Shall I Wear (a giddy social type talking to her Negro cleaning woman) and Yowzah ("Shonuf, Yassuh Boss!"), an acid comment on the Uncle Tom refrain. They have three of the smoothest voices in folkdom, and their racial protests, though skimpy in content, are strictly nonviolent...
...computer already has been put to work at more than 700 specific tasks, both mundane and exotic, from bookkeeping to monitoring underground nuclear explosions. Computers control the flow of electric current for much of the nation, route long-distance telephone calls, set newspaper type, even dictate just how sausage is made. They navigate ships and planes, mix cakes and cement, prepare weather forecasts, check income tax returns, direct city traffic and diagnose human-and machine-ailments. They render unto Caesar by sending out the monthly bills and reading the squiggly hieroglyphics on bank checks, and unto God by counting...
...gradually manage to support the change. So far, the installation of computers in some industries has required so many new skills that the total unemployment level has hardly changed. In many cases, the computer has not meant an overall loss of jobs so much as a change in the type of jobs done. Says Sir Leon Bagrit: "Mechanization has sometimes given millions of people subhuman work to do. Automation does the exact opposite...
...simple seminar-research program in the operations of government would do little for these people. Granted that they will be the predominant type among the junior fellows, what can the Institute do for them...