Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consulting Congress or have done so only after the fact. Jefferson did it at Tripoli in 1801, as did Buchanan against Mexican bandits in 1859, Wilson at Vera Cruz in 1914, Roosevelt in Iceland in 1941, Truman in Korea in 1950, Eisenhower in Lebanon in 1958, Kennedy at the Bay of Pigs in 1961, and Johnson in the Dominican Republic two years...
...only its faithful scribe. We must look to his choice of the instant in portraiture or in an urban world to find the mind of the artist shaping its material. The regularity of the natural stonework in "Grand Canvon" is like the automated regularity of the "San Francisco Bay Bridge from Yerbe Buen Island" (1953). Adams chooses to portray the bridge in a straightaway perspective with its vanishing point squarely centered: Beetle-like automobiles march toward infinity in formation, as do the landscapes achieve an effect perilously close to the Canyon's rocks...
COLLEGE ALL-STAR FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). Heisman Trophy Winner Steve Spurrier leads the College All-Stars against pro football's Green Bay Packers in the 34th annual game. Live from Soldier Field in Chicago...
Died. Desmond FitzGerald, 57, CIA Deputy Director for Plans (meaning the agency's operational branch, with its overseas agents and paramilitary organizations), an urbane onetime Wall Street corporation lawyer who became the CIA's Latin American chief in the shakeup following the Bay of Pigs debacle, took over the plans department last year; of a heart attack while playing tennis; in The Plains...
...Surveyor 4 sped toward the moon's Central Bay at 5,938 m.p.h. last week, ground controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory had high hopes that the unmanned spacecraft would do everything it was told. Two earlier Surveyors had soft-landed on the moon with astonishing ease, sent back 17,465 detailed pictures showing even lunar pebbles. With a hinged aluminum arm, Surveyor 3 had also scooped up lunar soil, helped determine that the moon's surface is strong enough to bear a weight of 6 lbs. per sq. in., more than enough to support...