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Correspondence I think, t h e r e f o r e IBM Barstow, Calif. To the Editors: I just read the review of War Games by Tom O'Brien in the Sept. 9 issue. Though the author protested against such...
...Illustrations: Page 42, from Underfoot, an Everyday Guide to Exploring the American Past (Scribner's, 1977...
...There still are places in our society where a pregnant woman hungry for help will be offered the "bread" of love and life instead of the "stone" of death...
...I have no problem accepting computers as machines, just as adding machines or alarm clocks, a bit more complicated of course, but the same genre...
...Stop me if I'm wrong...
...Gordon that she could be a genuine friend to troubled women by using her impressive writing skills to pass on good news...
...DR...
...Hooray...
...RUSS COLE No pro-nuclear s e c r e t Vienna, Va...
...I'm a little weary of making something out of nothing...
...Finally, please suggest to Ms...
...Please ask Ms...
...Commonweal: 34...
...McCracken spent writing and researching the book I chatted with him and provided him with information and directed him to other experts on numerous occasions -- a service, I might add, that I have also performed for Lanouette in his capacity as a journalist on a number of occasions...
...p. 56, Valerry...
...MARK P. MILLS Abortion a l t e r n a t i v e s Tulsa, Okla...
...I was not asked to provide a technical review in advance of publication...
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...Can it be that we have traveled so far down the abortion road that to be "pro-choice" now really means to offer life as an alternative to abortion...
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...The question of the computer is simv!ya question of how much of man's soul can be routinized...
...I'm frankly a bit tired of winking, sneezing, fornicating, traitorous computers...
...But taking routine procedures and letting machines do them faster is nothing new...
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...To the Editors: In your October 21 issue, Mary Beth Gordon described the sad experience of taking a friend to the hospital for an abortion she did not want...
...21) is one of the best I have read on this controversial subject...
...Lanouette also claims that "in his haste to praise and defend a book that presents the 'other side' of the nuclear debate, Mills betrays his own attachments -- to McCracken and the pronuclear vision he advocates...
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...Gordon will learn that in or near her community there are real friends who will demonstrate that there is an alternative choice to abortion...
...There has never been a secret about my support for commercial nuclear energy in my work with the press, my writings or public appearances...
...What a profoundly sad and troubling irony...
...EDWARD L. MAII.LET Executive Director Catholic Charities Not light decisions Kansas City, Mo...
...To the Editors: There are a number of points in William Lanouette's response to my criticism of his review of the McCracken book The War Against the Atom that call for redress (Oct...
...Given the overwhelming preponderance of anti-nuclear books for the general readers, it is noteworthy to find a well-written pro-nuclear one especially since numerous studies continue to verify the fact that the majority of scientists are "pro-nuclear...
...Let's cut out the COrn...
...Gordon to contact "Birthright" and "Catholic Charities" now to learn about alternatives that will be available, if she is ever again in a position to help a friend who has a problem pregnancy...
...However, the first two are personal in nature, and to them I take strong exception...
...It was only after the book was published that I discovered, and was flattered, to find mention of my name among others in the acknowledgments...
...This now includes the routine things the mind can do as well as the hands, in computerization: the split second repetition of the sequential logical construct of an exterior phenomenon, There is a logical construct out there and we can make a machine to repeat it flawlessly...
...The only mystery is the mystery of looking at our own thought processes, as aped and reconstructed with machine preciSion, and watching them work faster than we could possibly make them work ourselves...
...To the Editors: The article, "Nobody wants an abortion," (Oct...
...The public needs to be more aware of the fact that it is the woman with a serious problem who seeks abortion as an answer and that the decision to abort is never made lightly...
...Their only real mystery is speed, in their mimicking idiocy...
...In those agencies she will find compassionate people who will provide the material and moral supports that the troubled woman needs...
...Lanouette falsely asserts that "although he doesn't say so, Mark Mills served as McCracken's technical adviser for this book...
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...Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...She will find that they also will arrange for the newborn "unwanted" baby to be adopted by a solid, loving family, if that is what the woman wants...
...Aren't there enough problems that need the best of man's authentically mysterious dimension of thinking without deliberately confusing ourselves to relieve the boredom by shrinking from the humanity of computers...
...Mary Beth Gordon has managed, through dramatization, to give an inside view of the sad dilemma "unwanted" pregnancy presents...
...Though the author protested against such delusion, to me it still reflected the currently socially certified mind boggle over the humanity of computers...
...Gordon describes how her companion sought the abortion at the urging of friends who convinced her that she had no choice...
...It is what the Industrial Revolution was all about, I believe...
...Over the years that Mr...
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