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...Debus, director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, had described details of Shepard's launch: "We had a man in a block-house watching the color of the flame, about 150 feet away. If it looked too bluish, or whatever, he was supposed to press a little button next...
...Somebody forgot to push the right button, Jesus, so all hell broke loose. Airline schedules are loused up, somebody is shouting at somebody else who can't help the situation, a lot of money has been lost, and about two dozen people are caught up in a cybernetic tangle. We've missed our plane, which isn't our fault, and I was due in Chicago to participate in a meeting forty-five minutes ago. Please cool everybody off, Lord, including...
...Americans served and shielded by machines at every turn, each silent switch and powerless push button was a taunt. Two of modern technology's paramount deities?the dynamo and the digital computer?had defected simultaneously. Yet Northeasterners wasted little time lamenting their betrayal by the machine. Instead, with a high sense of shared adventure, they set about the unfamiliar task of using legs and arms to help themselves and their fellow men. If in the process the 20th century American learned belatedly to mistrust the complex mechanics by which he lives, he also acquired new faith in his humanity...
...President showed it. Almost no official visitors were admitted to his third-floor suite at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., last week. Johnson limited his reading to essential reports such as the CIA's daily intelligence summary, rarely used the multi-button telephone console at his bedside. "I think he is weaker than anyone thought," observed White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers. "I think the pace of the last 20 months has accumulated weariness that was not evident until the operation...