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...palatial official residence, he joked: "Don't worry, I'm not going to start a revolution." As Ali explained it: "For 27 months I have been an overworked bird in a gilded cage, and I am glad to be out of it. Anyway, Chaudhri is a brainier fellow than I and may not find the premiership as tough going as I did." He hopes to resume his old job as ambassador to Washington...
Entomologists are forever disagreeing about ants. Some insist that the ant is brainier and better organized than man; others regard the ant as a slothful, inconsistent dimwit which gets along solely on a few inherited habits. John (The Life of the Spider) Crompton, a British expert, strikes a sprightly middle course. In a new book, Ways of the Ant (Houghton Mifflin; $3.50), he declares that ants, banded together in communities, have evolved emotions, "discipline and intelligence of a high order," even though the individual ant may be a nincompoop compared to a go-it-alone housefly. Some of Author Crompton...
When TIME reported the appointment by President Eisenhower of the new Joint Chiefs of Staff (May 25), the story was headed "Brainier Board." I was reminded, when I read it, of a TIME correspondent's report on the Army's training maneuvers held in Louisiana in September 1941. Said the 1941 dispatch...
...fact that we are about to have our first bald-headed President of the U.S. Is this just in keeping with the tempo of our times-that tension causes baldness? Both candidates have had their share of "headaches" and tension. Or do we have here two of the brainier men of our times proving the old wheeze that "brains and long locks can't share the same scalp...
Computing machines are getting brainier and brainier. Latest and brainiest is SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer), built in Washington by the National Bureau of Standards...