Playboy After Hours

June, 1968

We had a visit the other day from a friend just back from a consulting job for a computer company that's working on the development of translating machines. This man isn't an electronics wizard, he's a professional, multilingual translator, who not only has done simultaneous translating for various Government agencies but enjoys a degree of distinction among the literati and cognoscenti as a sensitive translator of poetry. He said he had mixed feelings about his consulting stint—as though he had...