Word: conn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARTIN FEIGENBAUM, '72 Yale College New Haven, Conn...
THOMAS W. CONWELL New London, Conn...
...campaign for Eugene McCarthy in 1968; hundreds of colleges and universities are closing for the day or radically altering schedules to allow for Moratorium demonstrations. The idea has spread from the campuses to the community at large?though not without arousing resistance. In the affluent suburb of Westport, Conn., the representative town meeting bitterly debated for nearly three hours last week and then only narrowly passed, 17 to 15, a resolution asking immediate action to get the U.S. out of Viet Nam. In California's San Joaquin Valley, the Porterville police chief denied local residents permission to march down...
...Britain, Conn., flags flew from utility poles on orders of Mayor Paul J. Manafort, who urged citizens to fly flags from their homes as well to "help serve those who have doubts that we remain the United States...
Died. Dr. Warren S. McCulloch, 70, major figure in the field of cybernetics; in Old Lyme, Conn. Multifaceted scientist who embraced the disciplines of philosophy, psychiatry and physiology, McCulloch dedicated his life to explaining the workings of the brain and nervous system, especially the thought-storing process, in terms of physical mechanisms. In 1943 he and the late Walter Pitts theorized that the brain could be described as a computing machine, operating on a mathematically logical basis, and that these principles could also be used in computers-a concept that paved the way for great advances in computer technology...