Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Actress Prowse, a sort of Leslie Caron with vitamins, is absolutely out of place in this picture. She looks human...
...last week from the U.S. hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. Meeting at Washington's Catholic University for the annual bishops' conference, 227 prelates urged a rededication to the principle and practice of personal responsibility, in order to halt "the seemingly inexorable march toward the automation of human beings and the steady loss of that freedom which is man's distinctive attribute...
...Arctic and the South Seas. Their estimated ages range from 1000 B.C. to the 19th century. There are glaring ritual masks, delicate canoe figureheads, ornate fly whisks and chieftains' necklaces. A fetish from the Congo bristles with nails that were driven into it to transmit pain to a human foe. A tiny ivory Eskimo looks as if it might have been carved by Henry Moore; a clay Mexican bowl from the days before Christ bears the withered countenance of a fierce old crone; a majestic "ancestral figure" from New Ireland (near New Guinea) possesses the beard...
...stimulus chicken on the other side of the wire. Baron and Kish conclude that chicks raised in isolation feel little attraction for their own kind, but after they have flocked together for six weeks, they learn to be as sociable as other chickens. Chickens are not much like humans, but Baron and Kish believe that their chicken study should bring cheer to parents of standoffish human young. If a child's withdrawnness comes from overprotection and isolation in his early years, he may be helped, as the chickens were, by being put in a flock where he can come...
...contains more than 2,000,000 bits of information in a coded pattern of black and white dots. The computer is so intelligent that it constantly checks its own circuits, makes some repairs itself. When it can't make the correction, the brain wisely teletypes for help from human custodians, reporting the location of the trouble spot, the month, day, hour and minute of the breakdown.' Morris (pop. 7,985), which only switched to dial phones a year ago, was chosen for the pilot project because of its size, its ratio of industrial business, rural and urban residents...