Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aids, represent a new generation of automated information. Data from a BMEWS station in Alaska, for example, or a message from a Navy antisubmarine patrol plane, is fed into the banked computer memory drums and onto the glowing display consoles without ever passing through human hands or brains. So fast are some of the systems, they work in what scientists and engineers call "real time." Between the observation of an event, its digestion by the computers and its display for the staff in the COCpit, there is an insignificant delay that can be measured in millionths of a second...
...heels of op artists, who address their work to the retina, has come a widespread number of "kinetic" artists, who try to combine mechanics and art. They are exploiting the human eye's capacity to perceive motion, and their work is the newest watchword on the fast-moving international gallery scene. Manhattan's avant-garde Jewish Museum is currently showing 102 works by kineticism's established practitioners, Jean Tinguely and Nicolas Schöffer. In Boston's Institute of Contemporary Arts, Matisse's grandson Paul is showing his Kalliroscope, an oozing suspension of metals...
...Manufacturers Hanover ($7.6 billion), Chemical ($6.9 billion) and Bankers Trust ($5.1 billion). Dwarfed by these is the Freedom National Bank, which had, as of the close of last week's banking hours, precisely $9,605,878.07 in assets. Yet for all its relative puniness, Freedom National is growing fast, and it celebrates its first birthday this week with 10,000 customers and predictions that assets will quintuple...
...which Harlem is not changing fast enough to suit Hudgins and many other Negroes involves the lending policies of the white banks. Negroes complain that these banks are quick enough to make short-term, high-interest loans on such repossessable goods as TVs and automobiles, but are notably cool when it comes to real-estate and small-business loans that would help Harlem more. "The other institutions," says Hudgins, "are not carrying their share of the burden. They do not relate themselves to the com munity." Freedom National makes consumer loans in competition with the five big banks, but real...
TORQUEMADA by Howard Fast 192 pages. Doubleday...