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Standard & Poor's, the investment service that keeps track of corporate earnings and dividends, not only reported record earnings itself ($2.7 million), but also seemed to celebrate the buoyant business outlook by appointing a pretty girl, Skidmore Graduate Penny Kaniclides, 28, a vice president of its computer subsidiary.
Computer Digestion. To carry out his mission, NORAD's commander, General Dean C. Strother, 57, can muster a force of more than 100,000 men, a Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS, pronounced bemuse) that stretches from Alaska to England, squadrons of missile-armed jet fighters, and flocks of...
To maintain its vast surveillance system and uninterrupted communication with a network of planes, bases and radar stations, NORAD has installed 13 computers-each with its own job, each able to bail out any of the others in case of trouble. Those computers, with their intricate mix of sophisticated electronic...
Breakthroughs in computer design and data processing are threatening man's freedom by making the government potentially all-knowing and therefore infallible, Revelle warned. "Here," he said, "we need some research even the political scientists haven't thought of."
While the play has flickers of wit and moments of poignance, it is less a drama than an exercise in computer programming. Albee has fed into it only such data as will produce the answer that this is the worst of all possible worlds. And just as Aldous Huxley spoke...