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...Article 7 ran out last week, an estimated 3,300 Brazilians had lost their government jobs. Mostly they were professors, middle-echelon executives in government enterprises, local political appointees. The big surprise was how harshly the military dealt with officers who had wavered, however briefly, in the flash revolt; 26 of 82 active generals have been forced into retirement, along with eight of 68 admirals...
...call immediately if they spotted any weapons or heard suspicious conversations. Two hundred El Paso firemen were assigned to traffic control, thus freeing city cops to watch the crowd and buildings. Armed Texas Border Patrolmen were stationed on roofs along the route. They carried walkie-talkies and could flash instant reports on any suspicious activities to the Secret Service. Whenever Johnson plunged into the mass of curbside spectators, he was surrounded by circles of Secret Service men, FBI agents and city detectives...
...went poorly, and in defeat Buddhists and Catholics found their historical hatreds coming to a boil. When Khanh dismissed Roman Catholic Interior Minister Lam Van Phat, a dour, desiccated brigadier general who felt the Premier had given in too easily to Buddhist reform demands, the situation reached flash point...
Powell's cool, elegantly witty books in fact are not so much self-contained novels as chapters in a projected, twelve-part series that he calls The Music of Time. So numerous are the odd and diverting characters who flash in and out of his pages that a list of all their names and relationships, assembled by London's Time and Tide two novels back, occupied four full pages of type. Yet every one of them is as distinctively striated and plump with life as a mountain trout, and the society they inhabit is as compellingly real...
...cope with the staggering information explosion in both business and government, a whole new electronic technology is fast developing that can store, catalogue and recall facts and figures in a pushbutton flash. Among the more sophisticated "information-retrieval" systems, Stromberg-Carlson has produced its 4020, Eastman Kodak its Recordak Miracode, RCA its 3488 and IBM its Walnut, which is used by the Central Intelligence Agency. Last week California's Ampex Corp. introduced the latest retrieval machine, a completely automated microfiling system that allows the searcher to edit his material as he selects...