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Poet, author, former U. S. Senator from Minnesota and candidate for the presidency, Eugene McCarthy now lives in the F. T. Valley near Slate Mills.
not likely that a computer will embezzle money, for example, from the Rappahannock National Bank. The telephone lines here are reasonably secure and even the integrity of party lines is high. More important than these evidences of local security of property and person is the evidence that the big national, possibly even international, computers have not quite discovered or defined life in this county. I cite two recent examples that are reassuring.
A few months ago. I received a very enticing offer from the Readers’ Digest. I have forgotten all of the details of the offer, but basically, a whole field of possibilities were opened up to me in return for an initial six months’ subscription to the magazine. My early indifference seemed to irritate the Digest computer, which following my failure to respond to the first shining offer, chided me for my insensitivity. I was beginning to feel some quilt, when there arrived through the mail another ultimate offer, or promise, or enticement, which was that if I hurried and did what the Digest
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