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Science's rapid accumulation of data, Asimov said, has created the need for a new branch of science, information retrieval. The new field, he said, should attempt to make the data scientists need available to them simply "by pushing the right button...
...French nuclear deterrent has always been that if America did not want her cities destroyed as a result of a purely Continental struggle, France would provide the atomic umbrella for Europe. De Gaulle fears that MLF might eventually provide, as Kennedy hinted, for sharing control of the nuclear button. Shared control of existing weapons would largely obviate the raison d'etre of the separate French deterrent. The deterrent, in turn, is on of the keys to the General's blueprint for French leadership of an independent Europe...
Does Portlist have any qualms at all about the Great Society? "I won't know that until Johnson describes it a little more fully." He rubbed the LBJ button on his lapel. "But I haven't found much to criticize in what I've heard during the campaign. You can't argue with the future...
...instance, Sen. Goldwater's statement that he would cut back our crash program to put a man on the moon got the drophead treatment in most papers, although President Johnson had merely spent another day promising to be President of all the people and worrying about the button...
...agents with shotguns, dressed as hunters, stumbled toward the farmhouse at dusk, one carrying the other on his shoulders. Reaching the door, one shouted: "Open, quick! My friend has just been badly wounded!" Veran's wife opened up; the agents grabbed her before she could push an alarm button, let Lavalette and 14 more policemen in. Upstairs they surprised Monsieur Jean stuffing heroin into cellophane bags destined for the U.S., and also uncovered not the usual kitchen-sink and gas-stove rig for boiling down morphine but an ultra-modern four-room assembly line-"a veritable factory," cried Lavalette...