Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place to place. Dr. James Van Allen of the University of Iowa says that a radio station in Tokyo that was picking up the satellite's signals last week noted a sudden increase in cosmic rays to as much as five times above normal. If this observation proves correct, it will be a landmark in cosmic ray study...
...more efficiency out of human custodians, says Seaton, is by "tricks and dodges" such as printing numbers large and small, or in varied colors and type sizes. Another would be to spot and correct "psychic blindness" (habits and prejudices) in humans who feed information to computing machines...
...Traitor Laval's righthand man, served as his secretary-general from 1942-44. He escaped to Spain ahead of the Allied armies, was condemned to death in absentia. Three years ago he surrendered voluntarily to stand trial for treason. This time the High Court judges were calm, judicially correct members of the French Parliament. Charged with negotiating a German mission in Dakar, and with trying to get German arms for use against the Maquis, Guérard, now 60, declared that it was all a double game to fool the Germans. His espousal of the occupation...
...Tall for a tenor-his pressagent, measuring with a basketball coach's rubber ruler, claims 6 ft. 3 in. -Gedda offers a clear, sweet voice that may lack warmth ("Champagne rather than Chianti," says one critic), but has strength and purity. His acting is intelligent, his pronunciation unusually correct for the opera stage; he is a linguist, speaks seven languages...
...decisions made within the governments of the respective nations. It is not -as yet, at least-the result of any great relative superiority of one nation's science over the other's. At the root this Congress must-before it does much else-decide which approach is correct...