Word: effect
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...province. "If I have any bright ideas," says Lodge, "I expect I will pass them on to Dick Nixon." He will be content, he says, to make the inside pages of the newspapers, leaving it up to Nixon to stir up the headlines (a decision that already shows its effect in the evident boredom of reporters assigned to cover him). Under his campaign franchise, Lodge sticks to foreign policy, though as the campaign proceeds he expects to broaden out, by relating domestic issues such as farm surpluses and civil rights to foreign policy...
Bulgaria. Though he holds no official government job, Todor Zkivkov, First Secretary of Bulgaria's Communist Party, considers himself the Bulgarian Khrushchev and, like his hero, is fond of making trips into the countryside to pose as the peasants' folksy friend. In Zhivkov's case, the effect is diminished by monotone oratory and a repugnant personality. A onetime printer and World War II partisan leader, chunky Todor Zhivkov, 49. is cold, humorless and conceited. Under his leadership, Bulgaria has become the only European satellite which has successfully herded virtually all its peasants onto collective farms...
...usual, such protests had no visible effect on the men of apartheid. But the Nationalists are frankly jittery about the outcome of next month's referendum, when Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd will ask the voters to approve his plan to make South Africa a republic and, tacitly, to approve his apartheid policies. In Pretoria's Supreme Court last week, Farmer David Pratt went on trial for firing two shots into Verwoerd's head last April. Chief business of the court was to hear psychiatric evidence that Pratt was mentally unbalanced. Before being led away for examination...
...Walter H. Brattain, "and when he shone a flashlight on it, he got a voltage. I didn't believe it." But Brattain never forgot, and seven years later (a delay enforced by the war), using the same "black stuff"-silicon-in an electrolytic solution, he got the same effect: a current was produced ten times as great as that from any other photoelectric device. A few months later they achieved the "transistor effect," a greatly amplified signal, using only a sliver of germanium and three wires...
...next step is machines that can do more than answer just yes or no; they would, in effect, reason by considering alternatives, reach "under the circumstances" conclusions. Bell has already reconstructed a neuron, the basic element of the human brain, electronically, will ..try linking several together in a "neural net" duplicating nerve tissue. Eventually they hope to devise a computer able to freely associate ideas. IBM and others are trying to control molecules to work as a new kind of transistor, make a computer whose components will "feel" each other's information, come to qualitative decisions...