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...sensitive and selective is the frog's-eye computer that human scientists have long tried to construct a duplicate. At a bionics* symposium sponsored by the Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base last week, Radio Corp. of America demonstrated a reasonable facsimile. RCA's artificial eye is a heavy box, 40 in. by 40 in., its end studded with 1,600 small light detectors that simulate the light-sensitive cells of a frog's retina. Behind the detectors are layers of electronic components that serve as frog nerve cells. They are interconnected in such...
...order to understand the "message" of the John Birch Society, one has to imagine the United States as constantly threatened by an internal "communist conspiracy", one has to construct a world in which outward appearances are both revealing and deceiving, and one must think in terms of the Birchite vocabulary of "protective coloration," "infiltration", and "innocent people who do not know what is happening to them...
Frederic A. Pennington's seminar on "The Critical Process and the Verbal Construct: Problems in the Structure of Language and the Meaning of Meaning" resumed meeting last night under the auspices of the Harvard Advocate...
...that time, the University will begin demolition of Little Hall and Dudley House in order to construct Phase II of Holyoke Center. Occupants of the doomed buildings and of part of Holyoke Center will be forced to find permanent or temporary quarters around the Square...
...Master of Lowell House has informed me that the Masters have, in an official consultation, advised him against sponsoring the seminar on. "The Critical Process and the Verbal Construct." This advice was handed down, according to Mr. Perkins, in light of my resignation...