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...German tank but a 51-foot great-grandchild of the humble adding machine, The International Business Machines Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. This shiny mathematical genius, composed of 765,299 parts and 530 miles of wire, has already been at work for the Navy for two years on complex problems of ship construction and ordnance in the basement of Cruft Laboratory...
...paralleled TIME'S own effort to bring world news to its readers.* No forum can reflect every color of thought on every nation's problems and policies; nor can it give every shade of U.S. opinion. (The Cleveland Institute, for instance, omits specific treatment of such important, complex problems as Palestine and India.) The program...
...historical. The United States was formed as the result of a successful revolution [and] . . . has never lost a war. . . . But the original groups which developed Canada all became Canadians as the result of being on the losing side in war or revolution." Result: Canada has a national inferiority complex...
...cells grow for a day or so, "eating" the sugar and acid. They grow in isolation, uninfluenced by the complex substances which would normally reach them from the oat seed. Professor Thimann can experiment on them, and know what he is doing...
...meeting's end, the argument between the humanists and the gadgeteers had invaded philosophy. Said Walter, icily: "Dr. Gibbs says that for his purposes the manual analysis is good enough. It may be for his purposes, but perhaps his purposes are not adequate. The brain is very complex. It is more complicated than the universe itself. We know a great deal about matter but very little about the mind, and it is about time we were finding out something...