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Robert Jastrow's Essay, "Toward an Intelligence Beyond Man's," is based on the claim that "in the 1990s ... the reasoning power of computers ... will begin to match that of the human brain." At no research laboratory that I know is there evidence for such a projection. Twenty years ago, computer conversion of spoken words to typed text was "around the corner." Today we are still unable to duplicate this simple human function, let alone reasoning. We cannot say that such things will never happen. We can say, however, that we have no scientific basis for forecasting...
Scammon and Wattenberg, who backed Henry M. Jackson for the 1976 Democratic nomination, base their argument on the fact that while several constituencies (notably blacks, Jews and labor) can claim that Carter could not have won "without us," only white Southerners can say that he succeeded "because of us." Indeed, the "Scammenberg" thesis is that Southern whites, in giving Carter "the margin of difference," abandoned their natural conservatism to such a degree that "the great paradox" of 1976 was that Carter ran strongest in the region where recent Democratic presidential candidates had been weakest. Because of white disaffection with liberal...
After Jaworski is done, Park will go before the Senate's Ethics Committee for more closed-door testimony. Although that is expected to be relatively brief, he is certain to be questioned closely on his claim that he contributed $20,000 to Hubert Humphrey's 1972 presidential campaign, a charge that Humphrey aides have denied. After his Senate session, Park will begin talking in public: first as the star witness at the trial of former California Congressman Richard Hanna, indicted for having accepted more than $100,000 in bribes; then to the House committee in open sessions...
Desaulniers blanked Princeton's Tom Page, 3-0 to claim the "A" division title. Bacon followed suit in the "B" class with a 3-1 victory over another Princeton foe, Bill Fisher...
...hear more testimony from Miller about sales by Textron, Inc., the conglomerate Miller currently chairs, to the government of Iran. Apparently, Textron paid a $2.9 million commission to an Iranian sales agency on a deal involving 500 helicopters made by a Textron subsidiary. Members of the Committee staff claim it is common knowledge that the owner of that sales agency was none other than the commander of the Iranian Air Force and the Shah's brother. In previous testimony, Miller denied knowledge of the involvement of the Shah's brother with the commission, but the seemingly minor incident raises some...