Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...learned, after only 20 hours of play, to beat the man who programed them. When the machines get a little brighter, they may learn economic games, such as figuring out the production schedule of an industry or manipulating the stock market. Once their human masters have set them to work, it is quite possible that an overeducated machine may sweep its masters to disaster before they realize clearly what...
...showed the first signs of Parkinson's disease, relived a major battle against the mysterious, crippling affliction widely considered incurable. In the care of a brilliant New York surgeon, Dr. Irving Cooper, she underwent a rare operation last January, at 54 has returned to relatively normal life and work. The TV show dramatized the moving case history that Maggie Bourke-White wrote for LIFE last spring, with some unfortunate descents to the sort of syrupy embarrassment that inevitably finds its way into TV scripts about personal struggles with sickness...
...grew older, Mahler became more and more terrified of the madness that haunted his family. He often refused to work in the isolated studio outside his summer home in Switzerland because he was convinced that every move he made was watched by a vengeful "goat-god." On the score of his tenth and last symphony, he scrawled despairing words: "The devil dances with me. Madness seizes me, accursed that I am-annihilates me, so that I forget that I exist, so that I cease to be . . ." Feverish and with a badly weakened heart, he conducted his last concert with...
...lied about Castro (meaning put him in a bad light) would, if it appeared in any Cuban paper, be followed by this rider: "This wire story is published voluntarily by this newspaper, making legitimate use of the press freedom existing in Cuba. But newspapermen and graphic workers of this work center express, using that same right, their opinion that the contents of the story are not in conformity with the truth or to the most elemental ethics of journalism." At week's end no Cuban newspaper had dared to publish a story that called for the rider...
...adult Americans sees most printed words as mere squiggly lines, and is, to U.S. census takers, a "functional illiterate." One such is Nara High, 64. of Durham, N.C. Instead of going to school, she went to work at eight in a textile mill, now lives alone in retirement, mostly watching television. "Oh, I would love to write my name," says she. "It would mean so much...