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...program was also developed because most tutors "are more sympathetically inclined towards the brighter students," Whitney said, although he stressed that "this is not to say that they lack the patience to work with slower students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Committee Offers 'Seminars' For High School | 1/19/1960 | See Source »

Machines have already been built that can learn by experience. Taught to play checkers, some modern computers have learned, after only 20 hours of play, to beat the man who programed them. When the machines get a little brighter, they may learn economic games, such as figuring out the production schedule of an industry or manipulating the stock market. Once their human masters have set them to work, it is quite possible that an overeducated machine may sweep its masters to disaster before they realize clearly what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Views of Life | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

Take Me Along. A nostalgic mood musical made from O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! and made the brighter by Jackie Gleason, Walter Pidgeon, Eileen Herlie and Robert Morse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...other hand, endures a dreary job because she lives in hope of finding a husband. Life is bleak for each of them; he lives from meal to meal, and she trots resolutely to the dance hall each Saturday to continue her implacable man hunt. In the end, things look brighter. She exchanges a bit of hope for a crumb of knowledge; he gives knowledge for hope. There is even a suggestion that they may meet at the dance hall the following Saturday. The novel has its charm-a disconcerting quality in a New Realist book-but the woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surface Without Depth | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Take Me Along. A nostalgic mood musical made from O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! and made the brighter by Jackie Gleason, Walter Pidgeon, Eileen Herlie and Robert Morse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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