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With three good pass receivers, Domres figures to run only when he has to. His backs are not outstanding--Paul Burlingame and Mike Busa keep the defense honest but not much more--especially compared to catchers Bill Wasevich, Max Carey, and a very good tight end named Bob Werner...
Jesuits are prominent in seismology and geophysics, e.g., Father J. Joseph Lynch, director of Fordham's geophysical observatory. In Rome, Father Roberto Busa is picking the electrical brains of a battery of IBM machines to sort out the different shades of meaning that St. Thomas Aquinas intended for his 13 million written words. Some 800 Jesuits are deep in theology; about 80 are electricity and physics experts; more than 900 are physicians or have some medical training...
With permission from Jesuit General John B. Janssens himself, Father Busa took his problem to the U.S. and to International Business Machines. When he heard what Busa wanted, IBM Founder Thomas J. Watson threw up his hands. "Even if you had time to waste for the rest of your life, you couldn't do a job like that," he said. "You seem to be more go-ahead and American than...
...seven years IBM technicians in the U.S. and in Italy, working with Busa, devised a way to do the job. The complete works of Aquinas will be typed onto punch cards; the machines will then work through the words and produce a systematic index of every word St. Thomas used, together with the number of times it appears, where it appears, and the six words immediately preceding and following each appearance (to give the context). This will take the machines 8,125 hours; the same job would be likely to take one man a lifetime...
...Dead Sea Scrolls. In these and other ancient documents, gaps can often be filled in by examining the words immediately preceding and following the gap and determining what other words are most frequently associated with them in the rest of the text. "I am praying to God," said Father Busa last week, "for ever faster, ever more accurate machines...