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...truck to take me into town, then questioned me all day. They would make me walk on my bad leg, and shove me with a rifle butt to make sure I did. After ten days I was getting pretty ripe-I don't know how they stood the smell. Finally they let a doctor wash...
...miracle hand"-a black-gloved affair with a thumb and forefinger that spring together when the good arm jerks some leather thongs strung across the body like a conductor's signal cord. The thongs are hard to wash, and the boys say that they soon begin to smell. The arm can be fitted with a pair of hooks with which, after much practice, a man can button himself up, tie shoelaces and lift up to 20 pounds...
...been tossed into the vestibule of another millennium. It was wonderful to think of what the Atomic Age might be, if man was strong and honest. But at first it was a strange place, full of weird symbols and the smell of death...
...clergy, educators, labor unions" could walk amongst the rows of white crosses in the cemeteries; if they could see a boy die, or smell the stench of death, they could realize how fed up and tired and sick we are of seeing soldiers killed. It is up to us to prevent as many deaths as we can in the next war. This requires training for the men who will fight it-this requires conscription...
Modern machines can already see, hear, smell and calculate-and one day they may begin to think. Dr. Vannevar Bush, head of Office of Scientific Research and Development, believes that a "thinking" machine (of limited intellectual capabilities) can be built. In the July Atlantic Monthly, he predicts a brain robot that will relieve man of much of the routine spadework of thinking. The machine he envisages is an electronic and photographic contraption which would store facts for ready recall, sort a man's ideas, even organize them logically...