Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Georgia's tousle-haired Dixie demagogue, Eugene Cox, isn't at all sure that the majority of his fellow members in the House can be trusted very far. He thought up a neat little plan to stop them. He wanted to restore to the House Rules Committee its old power to bury any bill safely in a deep committee pigeonhole. What's more, he thought he could put it over...
...True Marine, who has seen action on Guadalcanal (referred to with reverence as "The 'Canal"). It is also explained clearly that his wife has deserted him in some dastardly fashion, taking his ten-year-old son, his pride and joy. (That's why he's tough, see). But it isn't until halfway between the Tarawa and Iwo campaigns that he shows his true nobility by feeding Pablum to the infant son of a girl he has picked up in a bar instead of carrying the interview to its logical conclusion...
...thinks by judging present information in the light of past experience. That is roughly what the machines do. They consider figures fed into them (just as information is fed to the human brain by the senses), and measure the figures against information that is "remembered." The machine-radicals ask: "Isn't this thinking...
Does that sound silly? It isn't, argues A. (for Abraham) A. (for Abby) Imberman, a Chicago public-relations man, in the January issue of the Harvard Business Review. Imberman, who has had several unions as clients, maintains that labor leaders' more violent anti-company feelings are often prompted by the failure of their communities to accept them and their families socially...
...Broadway Actor Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac), playing his second movie role. As a glib, impossibly clever rogue, he steals every scene. But it is only petty larceny. Miss Tierney's vacuous look (not a new look) makes it hard to tell when she is hypnotized and when she isn...