Word: iv
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Baffled, he turned for help to a computer. After analyzing many more unridable designs, he finally felt ready to build URB IV, an awkward-looking machine whose front wheel was four inches ahead of the normal position. The result was smashingly successful. Even when it was given a hard shove forward, the riderless URB IV quickly toppled. "It seems a lot of tortuous effort to produce in the end a machine of absolutely no utility whatsoever," Jones concluded, "but that sets me firmly in the mainstream of modern technology...
...Among the members: the John D. Rockefellers III and IV, Ralph Bunche, C. Douglas Dillon, Robert Goheen, Clark Kerr, Robert Roosa, Frank Stanton, Thomas Watson, Whitney Young...
This is the theme that runs through the novel, a combination of poetry and narrative that culminates in a vision of a utopia in which ideals have metastasized like cancer cells. The place is Waipori City, New Zealand; the time, post-World War III-or maybe IV. In the world's blighted aftermath, conditions require such measures as the Human Delineation Act, which computerizes the population into those who are allowed to live and those who are unnecessary and must die. The latter are officially known as "animals...
...object of all this compassion is Love Story's heroine, Jenny Cavilleri. She is only a baker's daughter from Cranston, R.T., but her brains got her into Radcliffe, where she catches the eye of Oliver Barrett IV, scion of generations of Bostonian bluebloods. When they marry, OIlie is cut off by his father, struggles through his law-school years, finally lands a good job with a Wall Street firm. Then Jenny dies of leukemia. OIlie falls into his father's arms and-that's right-cries...
...accommodate a hundred more. if all are properly informed. The problem is that such campaigns of attrition will be futile-and will lead to even greater class discrimination in the draft-as long as thousands of victims ride uninformed to the slaughter. Cambridge needs books like IV-F and the Handbook: but the Army's supply of hamburger will be cut off only when the lifesaving manuals also reach Chelsea. Roxbury, and other favorite manpower pools...