Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think fast enough to make its strategic decisions. They will train themselves by playing war games, as human generals do now, and will figure out more quickly than humans when it seems necessary to push the fatal buttons. But Wiener does not trust the motives of even the brightest war-making machine. "If the rules for victory in a war game," he says, "do not correspond to what we actually wish for our country, it .is more likely that such a machine may produce a policy which will win a nominal victory on points, at the cost of every interest...
...budget on education. Yet the schools turn out so few qualified graduates that places are going begging in universities. Some Africans argue that school curriculums should be changed ("Why study the industrial revolution when our problem is detribalization?"), along with college admissions standards ("Some of our brightest chemistry students score low in English and are disqualified"). But all agree that thousands more schools are needed. Says Allassane Diop, Guinea's levelheaded Information Minister: "Too many African nations want fancy colleges right away as prestige symbols without preparing students for them. In Guinea our first job is to reduce illiteracy...
...hockey's brightest new star is a baby-faced youngster with blond curly hair: 20-year-old Bobby Hull of the Chicago Black Hawks. His fullback's legs let him flash to a halt in a swirl of shaved ice, start again in a burst of speed that may well be the most explosive in the National Hockey League. He is solid enough (5 ft. 10½ in., 190 Ibs.) to hold off a defense man with one thick arm while stickhandling the puck with the other. And when he slaps one of his lefthanded shots, the puck...
...pulse of electricity. Their eyes lit up and the muscles around their blowholes "smiled." They became addicted to electrical delight and worked hard to get more of it. Dolphins learned in one demonstration how to operate an apparatus that yields a pleasure-giving jolt. Chimpanzees, which are probably the brightest land animals, need dozens of tries, and even humans do not always get the idea right...