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...present, even the most versatile digital computers have memories that can cope with only a limited vocabulary. Switches and relays may be open or closed, holes may be present or absent from a punched card, bits of magnetism may or may not be spotted on a tape. But whatever the computer memory is composed of, it uses, in effect, only two words: yes and no. As a result, the machine can count only in what mathematicians call binary notation. Familiar decimal numbers, which are composed of the ten digits, 0 through 9, must be translated into binary notation before they...
...North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford: "We do not label automobiles dangerous, although they are one of the greatest killers. We do not insist that whisky be labeled with advice that one out of 15 who takes a first drink will become an alcoholic." The cigarette company presidents were conspicuously absent, but their attorney argued that only Congress-not the FTC -has the power to order such drastic labeling rules. Other critics pointed to the apparent folly of one Government agency's attempting to cut down tobacco sales while another-the Agriculture Department-has shoveled out $100 million to subsidize...
Scranton named no names in his assault, but Pennsylvania A.F.L.-C.I.O. President Harry Boyer felt certain that he knew whom the Governor was talking about. Boyer retorted that he would like to discuss the issue with Scranton "in a dispassionate and objective manner-singularly absent from his address." Boyer's organization, of course, vowed an all-out fight against Scranton's reform proposals...
More crucial is the interpretation of Section Four, which specifies that "Whoever induces or attempts to induce a minor to absent himself unlawfully," or "harbors a minor, who, while school is in session, is unlawfully absent," shall be fined...
...Stayout, and the teachers in the "freedom Schools" the children will attend, could be held criminally liable, according to Sutherland. He doubted, however, that parents would be held liable under this section. Brooke also indicated that this section would probably not be interpreted to include the parents of the absent, children...