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Conceived in 1941 as a way for the deaf to "read" speech, the voice-print machine analyzes patterns of frequency and amplitude, transcribing each variation into a spectrogram. One of the chief developers, Physicist Lawrence Kersta, claims that everyone's voiceprint is as unique as his fingerprints, and that any skilled technician can identify a voiceprint with more than 99% accuracy. Other scientists have disputed his claims...
...Journal couldn't keep the faith," retorted the mayor. The incident, he went on, "illustrates how channels of communication in a monopolistic situation are so clogged by the monopoly that the public is denied access to a free flow of truth." In announcing that he would be deaf to Journal Co. reporters, Maier was perhaps listening to the voice of political experience. He was re-elected overwhelmingly in 1968 after dueling with the press, and the next election is April...
Senator Edward Kennedy declared that the Administration had turned a deaf ear for eight months to "the brutal and systematic repression of East Bengal by the Pakistani army," and now was condemning "the response of India toward an increasingly desperate situation on its eastern borders." Senators Edmund Muskie and Hubert Humphrey echoed Kennedy's charges...
...there is another Loren Eiseley, as this eighth book of his makes clear. This is the Eiseley who grew up listening to his father recite Shakespeare to his stone-deaf wife; the Eiseley who rode the rails during the Depression, who has spent much of his life hunting for hones in caves, and who believes that the process of evolution will lead in startling directions: "I always say to myself hopefully, 'After us the dragons...
...almost the same time, Peter and Beverly had a son, Peter Jr. ("Bucky"), who they learned was mentally retarded. Beverly took off a full year from performing to work with Muffy in a school for the deaf and try to come to terms with her dual tragedy. "The first question you ask," she says, "is a self-pitying 'Why me?' Then it changes to a much bigger 'Why them?' It makes a whole difference in your attitude...