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Fishermen's Friend. A sonar apparatus for locating schools of fish was put on sale by Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. Other commercial fish-finding devices work only when the boat is directly above the school; Sea Scanar sends out sound impulses in a 180° arc, has located fish as far off as a quarter of a mile. Price (uninstalled...
...helped set up the experiment thought it was an auspicious start. With a vocabulary of only 250 words, the machine was able to translate sentences dealing with politics, law, mathematics, chemistry, metallurgy, communications and military affairs. Samples: "Magnitude of angle is determined by the relation of length of arc to radius." "Starch is produced by mechanical methods from potatoes," "A military court sentenced a sergeant to deprival of civil rights." To translate clearly, the machine had to have some simple translation rules (i.e., how to choose one of several meanings) impressed on its "memory" apparatus. And Russian letters...
...Naples. Actress Ingrid Bergman, still wearing her medieval stage robes and manacles, exchanged toasts with husband Roberto Rossellini after the opening of Arthur Honegger's new opera, Joan of Arc at the Stake, in which Ingrid starred (but did not sing). Rossellini directed the production, Ingrid's first stage job since her 1947 appearance on Broadway in Maxwell Anderson's Joan of Lorraine...
...shape of a Texas belle (Eleanor Parker) who makes a play for the strong man of the garrison (William Holden). Unaware that Eleanor is really conspiring with the leader of the Confederate prisoners (John Forsythe), Holden plays right along with her-until suddenly both of them discover that they arc playing for keeps...
...group here in the last two decades--the Harvard Veterans Workshop. Back from the wars in 1947 came a group of talented, ambitious students who already had done considerable work in profession-5The above scene is from a dress rehearsal of the 1909 production of Schiller's "Joan of Arc." The star, Maude Adams, is shown at left center. Presented in the Stadium under the auspices of the German Department, this production had a supporting cast of 1,500 calvarymen, bowmen and soldiers and attracted a crowd of over...