Word: balled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team of crystal-ball-gazing scientists have predicted that within the decade it will be impossible for a man in the next room to tell whether he is talking to a man or a machine. We are nearing the ultimate in the American Dream, equality of flesh and metal...
...Angeles' annual Las Madrinas debutante ball, 33 debs were thrown into the maw of Old Angeleno society. Few father-daughter couples were as dashingly smooth, however, as the old hoofer him self, Fred Astaire (who hates to wear tails), and winsome...
...have her dress buttoned. After breakfast, Pamela is driven from the Coffey s' home in Atlanta's northeast suburbs to the Garden Hills elementary school. In a regular second-grade class she reads the same books as her classmates, works the same arithmetic problems and plays ball at recess. It is a normal school day, and that is important to Pamela. She is blind...
...Play Ball. Dr. Lilly first learned to admire dolphins at Marineland in Florida, where he watched them entertain tourists. He noticed that they seemed to understand spoken commands, learned quickly the rules and tactics of water polo. Dissection showed that their brains are even bigger than human brains and have as complicated a cerebral cortex, the seat of the higher mental functions. Encouraged by these observations, Dr. Lilly planted electrodes in the dolphins' brains and found a spot that gave them exquisite pleasure when it was stimulated by a feeble pulse of electricity. Their eyes...