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...word-symbols but their application in totally unfamiliar contexts. Having taught her to associate the color red with apple and the color green with grape, says Premack, "we then tested her comprehension of the conception 'color of.' " He was not surprised when Sarah demonstrated her ability to assign the characteristic "color of" to totally unfamiliar objects: that the redness of an apple, for instance, could also be found-and recognized by her -in a persimmon...
...very least, the specialists ought to have more capital and more competition among themselves. Bringing more bright young members into the tight old club could serve both purposes. One way to improve the system would be to assign at least two specialists to each stock, thus increasing the capital available to stabilize the issue and introducing a measure of competition...
Minimal Risk. In publishing Bucher: My Story and in assisting Journalist Trevor Armbrister to prepare A Matter of Accountability, Bucher rebels against the role of scapegoat that the Navy's board of inquiry tried to assign him and a few others. The commander succeeds to the extent that he shows his real adversary to have been a fantastically inefficient bureaucracy-the U.S. Navy. Armbrister's findings generally support Bucher. Yet these two densely detailed books also show, almost inadvertently, that Bucher himself was not the decisive officer he might have been...
...Republicans tried to talk Riegle out of it, but he would not be denied his moment on center stage. Riegle offered his motion for the House to join the Senate in approving Cooper-Church. Wayne Hays of Ohio, a Democratic hawk, instantly asked House Speaker John McCormack who would assign the speaking time during the debate on Riegle's motion. Riegle, replied McCormack. The prospect of Riegle cavorting, however briefly, in even a minor leadership role was too much for Hays, a veteran of 22 years in the House. He moved to table Riegle's motion, which, under...
...football behind him when he was "integrated"-transferred to a formerly all-white high school and made assistant coach on the "B" team. White officials explain that there are simply not enough comparable jobs to go around, and invariably find the whites better qualified. One favorite ploy is to assign a relocated black to teach a subject in which he has no certification. Then he is closely observed and fired for incompetence...