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Insurance companies are interested in the storage capabilities of the machine. Since the binary dots can represent anything, including our alphabet, it should be possible to file immense amounts of information on the tape. The operator would simply dial a certain number and the desired data could be - transformed speedily from dots to typed English...
...writers, actors and politicians gathered to launch a ?250,000 memorial fund for the late George Bernard Shaw, heard a few words from the Irishman's longtime friend Lady Astor, who objected to the fact that he had left the bulk of his estate to promote a phonetic alphabet (TIME, April 2). Said she: "It was a ridiculous will. Let us form a society to break it . . . I took intelligent people down to argue with him about it. I said to him, 'Leave me some money. In generations to come, people will say, "That was the woman...
...idea of the importance of his find. The story was carved on a 200-lb. stone he dug out of a small hill that had once been an island in an ancient lake. The inscription was written in more than 200 runes, the ancient alphabet of the Norse. Ever since the carving was first translated, the Kensington Stone has been one of the most fascinating exhibits in the history of the daring Norse seamen...
...registration lines will wind through Memorial Hall, starting at the South Door, and emptying at the far portico. Doors open at 9 a.m. for those whose last initials begin with A through L. The rest of the alphabet registers from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.; all late arrivals from...
...ready to go to sea in earnest. He knew the "riggin' and runnin' gear" as well as the alphabet, but life on a whaler held odd surprises for him. The oddest: having to douse his clothes in urine, the standard detergent aboard the oily whalers, before washing them in sea water...