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...machine will not obey tomorrow's masters. It will fool them, like Author Olesha. While the bosses will expect it to work mechanical marvels, "What will it actually do, their idol, the machine? It will sing our love songs, the silly love songs of the dying century, and gather the flowers of the past era. It will fall in love, become jealous, cry. dream...
...industry. Generally, Loudon prefers to leave most of the on-the-spot negotiating to local managers. Says he: "By comparison, they are certainly more important and have greater responsibility than ambassadors today." All of them go forth with one ironclad rule from Loudon: "Be a good citizen, obey the laws, but never get mixed up in politics. Never contribute to political campaigns and never pay baksheesh. Never. Never." He does much of his traveling between London and The Hague, where the Group keeps separate headquarters, flies back and forth in a de Havilland Heron from the Group's fleet...
Fortnight ago, after his bishop sternly forbade him to receive Nikita, Canon Kir reluctantly agreed to obey. But neither church nor state had any real confidence that the canon could resist if Nikita came to call. Accordingly, on the morning of the day Khrushchev was due to arrive in Dijon, two police cars pulled up in front of Canon Kir's house and hustled the furiously gesticulating priest off for a long drive in the country...
GERMANY'S ALFRIED KRUPP will never have to obey Allies' postwar order that he sell the coal mines and steel plants in his big empire, say top West German businessmen. Krupp has won his second one-year delay of sale deadline. If anyone bids for properties (worth more than $750 million), Krupp can legally claim that bid is too low, or (if it comes from a foreigner) that it is not in the interests of Germany...
...inconsistent the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church is in its opposition to the limitation of birth by contraceptive means, when we consider that the priesthood itself, male and female, does not obey the divine command to be fruitful and multiply...