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...predominantly urban New Jersey, taken-for-granted Republicans went heavily Democratic because the G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate seemed more interested in getting a Marxist history professor fired than in facing up to pressing statewide problems. Long-docile Democrats in Philadelphia chopped a tentacle off the "Octopus of Walnut Street," as their tired machine is unlovingly known, by electing a District Attorney on the Republican ticket. A Democrat surprised everybody by getting himself elected mayor of Scranton, Pa., and Republicans did the same in Binghamton, N.Y., Waterbury and New Britain, Conn., and Akron, Ohio...
...sold by subscription. Bookless Colleges. The next step after bibliographical control is retrieval of information itself. Computers cannot yet actually "read" documents and pull out the relevant parts. They can, however, select copies of entire documents. The most advanced example of this technique is the CIA's "Walnut" system, by which an 8-in. by 14-in. page of information is reduced to a microscopic image; any one of 990,000 images can be plucked out of the CIA's computers within five seconds, after which it can either be projected on a screen or reproduced on paper...
...William and James Hart and Thomas Moran. Today the Athenaeum remains unchanged. The gaslight chandeliers have been electrified, the timeless hush is occasionally broken by construction next door. But the deep-set windows admit the weak northern light just as they did nearly a century ago; the oak and walnut floors gleam from years of polishing. And the statuary from Italy, along with the period paintings from the U.S., still mirrors the comfortable Victorian world of a prosperous Vermont manufacturer...
...Sarge, baby, you're a real swinger," cried Murray the K, hoisting his Beatle boots onto Sargent Shriver's walnut conference table. What was Murray the K doing in the office of the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity? Well, he had an idea for reaching the U.S.'s more than a million school dropouts and unemployed kids with a TV program that would really grab them where they lived. Where they lived, said Murray, was with the Supremes and the Righteous Brothers and Cannibal and the Headhunters. And in between sets, Murray would...
...Plaque. Rivers' chief complaint is that McNamara has, in many of his administrative decisions, usurped the rights of Congress. On the chairman's rostrum in his committee room he has placed a walnut plaque, inscribed in gilt lettering "U.S. Const.-Art. 1-Sec. 8. The Congress shall have Power . . . to raise and support Armies . . . provide and maintain a Navy . . . make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces...