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...same old reliable crew, including: Phil Bernstein, who won the last game with a clutch single; Gavin Gilmor, who has hit homers in the just three contests; league-leading lumberman Mike Drummey; fielding expert Dave Morse; catcher Dick Diehl, who wins ball games with his bat and his chatter; hustling Curly Combs, who knocked in six runs to crush Princeton; currently red-hot Terry Bartolet; and right field master Bobby St. George...
...Tower of Babel had nothing on the modern cocktail party, whose disparate clatter and chatter has long fascinated linguists, novelists, sociologists and sound engineers-as well as the imbibers. Unconsciously, every cocktail-partygoer performs an unusual feat as he sips his gin amid the din: while carrying on his own dazzling conversation, he is able simultaneously to monitor the surrounding babble for such important items as the sound of his own name or a verbal pass at a lady friend. How does the human organism perform these intellectual gymnastics? Fascinated by what they call "the cocktail-party problem," two British...
Easy Cliches. To help his brain make the switch from one conversation to another, the partygoer unconsciously does some lip reading of his companion's chatter from the corner of his eye while one ear is ranging around. Even if three conversations are being fired at his brain at once, say the scientists, the listener can still select the most interesting one by turning his head to varying angles, thus subtly altering the relative time delays of each source as it reaches his ear. One reason the brain can work so efficiently at cocktail parties, says Dr. Cherry...
...provincial computer may send an electronic S O S to a big brother in an other city - provided it has already been connected to its collaborator by coaxial cable and microwave radio. Computers now being set up to keep track of seat reservations for U.S. airlines will have to chatter with one another day and night...
...feels sure that a microwave system using bare and costless ridges of land instead of expensive repeater stations could carry computer chatter all over the country. It would probably be too noisy to carry human conversation, but unlike their creators, computers are not bothered by noise on the phone line...