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Police Asylum. Even worse than the camps are the prison psychiatric institutions. Dissenters are regularly dispatched to these asylums without trial, for indefinite periods and with no possibility of appeal. A typical case is that of Leonid Plyushch, a cyberneticist whose aspirations for Ukranian cultural freedom led to charges of "creeping schizophrenia." He has been given massive doses of depressant drugs. After two years in one of the U.S.S.R.'s seven police-run lunatic asylums, the noted scientist has been driven to a state of mental and physical collapse...
...launching the first U.S. satellite, in making a soft landing on the moon and in taking close-up pictures of the moon and Mars. At the same time, such speculative M.I.T. thinkers as Physicist Charles Townes, who worked out principles that led to thet maser and laser, and Cyberneticist Norbert Wiener, whose theories helped lay the foundations of automation, make M.I.T. much more than a producer of management specialists. Ironically, both schools have also contributed to Red China's nuclear missile capability by training its missile expert, Tsien Hsue-shen (see THE WORLD), who earned his M.A. at M.I.T...
Died. Norbert Wiener, 69, M.I.T. mathematician, cyberneticist, linguist; of a heart attack; in Stockholm (see SCIENCE...
...treat him as a twelve-year-old," insists his mother, who feels that "you couldn't drum all this into a child if he didn't want it." She hoped to get Lance into Harvard, cradle of child prodigies from Cotton Mather, who entered at twelve, to Cyberneticist Norbert Wiener, who was a graduate student at 14. But Harvard now looks askance at taking freshmen under 16. Caltech also rejected Lance because of his age (but will consider him as a graduate student...
With due respect to all mental giants, I cannot help thinking after reading of Cyberneticist Wiener [TIME, Dec. 27] that we "of mediocre attainments or less" can still provide an insight to the value of the human brain which is fearfully lacking in Professor Wiener's cold analysis...
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