Word: computerization
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The romance of spying went out with Mata Hari. Such is the nature of the game today that a lowly government code clerk or a technician who punches computer cards at a missile site may be a more important intelligence source -and far more difficult to detect-than the disgruntled...
And it's all so very blatant. There are flashing lights, Zippo lighters, Agfa cameras, labyrinthine corridors. All the Alphavillagers walk around deadpan. If you weep when your wife dies or say words like "Why" or "Conscience," you get shot. There is this Big Brother named Professor Von Braun (can...
But the Brattle fans' real hero is Godard himself. Champion of love and poetry, foe of technology and sterility, Godard fights a never-ending battle for all sorts of aesthetic things that the computer which rules Alphaville, Alpha 60, just doesn't appreciate.
Out to wring all the mileage they can from new technology, the railroads are promoting piggyback delivery of truck trailers, adopting computer-controlled operations and bookkeeping, devising special-purpose cars to win back shippers. Multilevel auto-rack cars, for instance, have enabled railroads to regain $100 million of motorcar hauling...
Whether he strangled, stabbed or beat his victims to death, the Boston Strangler usually left some article of clothing -stocking or bra-tied around the neck in a flamboyant bow that police learned to recognize as his grisly trademark. The obscene indignities he performed on the bodies of the women...