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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tall (6 ft. 4 in. by the time he was 15) and myopic, Huxley grew up through Eton and Oxford to live in a thin, rarefied world of his own. His notion of conversation, Osbert Sitwell grumbled, was to relay data on the "incestuous mating of melons" or the "curious amorous habits of cuttlefish." In words that Clark applies to all the Huxleys, young Aldous seemed less a human being than "something more nearly approaching a controlled experiment...
...eyeball to weld a detached retina back into place, or puncture small holes in the retina to ease the pressure of glaucoma. They also penetrate translucent skin to vaporize skin cancers, or tattoos that out-live the patient's enthusiasm for such decoration. Lasers are being used in data pro- cessing to heat tiny, closely spaced spots on magnetic film, thus altering the magnetization and increasing the bits of information that can be packed into a given area. Laser beams themselves can be modulated to carry considerably more intelligence than any radio waves. The Air Force Avionics Laboratory...
Imagine also Grosjean's bafflement when he found, from carbon-14 tests and other data that the menhirs belong to the period 1400 B.C. to 1200 B.C.- at least seven centuries before the golden age of Greece or the Etruscans. Earlier neolithic sculpture is totemic in nature, but Corsican menhirs, Grosjean noted, are "realistic and naturalistic, not stylized like Egyptian statues, and not divinities." To account for them, Grosjean has had to reconstruct an obscure artistic period. His starting point was a mysterious Mediterranean "People of the Sea," who left dome-shaped temples on Corsica, Sardinia and elsewhere...
...decisions into a neat pattern. They should instead make full use of all the modern tools; not only law, but medicine, psychiatry, mass psychology, economics and social engineering. Fortas himself is thinking of equipping his office with a computer console to tap the memory bank of social knowledge and data assembled by the Russell Sage Foundation, of which he is a trustee. More and more the courts "enter into everybody's life every day, from pre-womb to post-tomb," and a many-sided approach, using all the disciplines, could result in something more satisfactory than "the frustrations...
...proposed merger would hold special advantages for Control Data. One of the fastest-growing computer concerns, it registered earnings during fiscal 1967 of $8.4 million on revenues of $245 million, and is running far ahead of that pace so far in 1968. President William C. Norris has had to scramble for the cash to keep the expansion going. Commercial Credit's resources should help Norris increase computer sales abroad, also provide the financing his company needs to strengthen its position in the competitive -and lucrative-leasing field...