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...anyone out in this cold is an achievement," Greg Ward, another BAARD member, said at Tuesday's pine tree party...
...attitude was commonplace. Boys worked as store clerks for ten hours a day to earn a dollar. Before Reagan got the tryout at WOC that took him by bus weekly from Illinois to Iowa through the football season, he considered seeking a $12.50 a week post at Montgomery Ward, where his father Jack sold shoes. In those days, $12.50 was a good wage: at the big new A & P in Dixon, four cans of evaporated milk cost 19?; the price of 3 Ibs. of coffee was 49?, and 10 Ibs. of new potatoes went for 23?. For 75?, the Dixon...
...hang on a little longer, hopefully not too much longer." Fighting back tears, Bruce German of Kensington, Md., addressed his "dear wife Marge" and said, "Since I can't be there in person, I'd like to think I'm there in spirit." Phillip Ward of Culpeper, Va., had some fatherly advice for his son Scott: "Continue the good work in school and help your mother around the house. And don't forget to feed the wild birds this winter; they'll probably be getting hungry...
Reagan's election has in fact set the tone for a more vigorous anti-Communist thrust to ward off a revolution like the Sandinista takeover in neighboring Nicaragua, but it has not given rightists a license to hunt leftists, or to try to overthrow the junta...
...inherently diabolic creatures that will rebel against human control, there is an equally romantic tradition that machines are inherently benign, symbols of progress and perfectability. Isaac Asimov epitomized that view in a famous story titled Robbie, in which a much mistrusted robot baby sitter of that name rescues its ward from a speeding tractor. Asimov then went on to formulate, in Runaround (1942), what he decreed to be, in the world of science fiction at least, the Three Laws of Robotics: "1) A robot may not injure a human being, 2) A robot must obey the orders given...