Word: fast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wiener foresees a time when modern pushbutton war will become so swift and complex that only computers can think fast enough to make its strategic decisions. They will train themselves by playing war games, as human generals do now, and will figure out more quickly than humans when it seems necessary to push the fatal buttons. But Wiener does not trust the motives of even the brightest war-making machine. "If the rules for victory in a war game," he says, "do not correspond to what we actually wish for our country, it .is more likely that such a machine...
...worst need not happen-if fast Western aid goes to African education...
...hottest politico-economic arguments in the U.S. involves the question: Is the U.S. growing fast enough? Last week the Federal Reserve Board produced factual proof that the industrial side of the U.S. economy is growing much faster than the Federal Reserve - and most economists - had charted. The faster pace was revealed when the Fed updated its industrial-production index for the first time since 1953; output has been rising at a rate of 4.1% a year from 1947 to date, v. 3.7% previously calculated. As a result, the revised index hit a peak of 166 (1947-49 equals 100) last...
...every new-car buyer knows, there is no thrill comparable to a fast getaway. This week automakers started a new quarter and a new year with scheduled production 85% ahead of the final quarter of 1959. Between now and March 31, the industry expects to produce 2,250,000 cars. It will be the largest first-quarter production in history, if there is no labor trouble. Automen predict that 1960 sales, including 500,000 imports, will soar above 7,000,000. American Motors'George Romney, most enthusiastic of the lot, forecasts...
...tubes. As he composes them, the tubes do not seem to outline shapes; they remain lines, as in handwriting or neon. "Never, never," Kricke vows, "will I use lines as a limiting element!" The eye follows Kricke's lines as if they were intertwining jets of water, now fast, now slow, and changing with each new viewpoint, or starting place. The effect on the viewer can be as exhilarating as that of negotiating a parkway cloverleaf at maximum speed, or of flashing through a night-blazing city in a darkened Pullman berth...