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Beyond these liberals, there was general House concern about the capacity of John McCormack to achieve real stature in the Speaker's chair. All could agree that McCormack, after 33 years in the House, has a keen and crafty mind, that he is a diligent worker and a dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Mr. Speaker | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

Died. Overton Brooks, 63, longtime (24 years) Democratic Congressman from Louisiana, a diligent booster of the military reserves and since 1959 chairman of the House Space Committee; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 22, 1961 | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

One of the machine's first tests was to distinguish sonar signals bounced off a submarine from those bounced off a porpoise, the ocean floor, or schools of fish. Even an ordinary computer could solve the same problem, but only after a tedious programing telling it exactly how. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Goof Button | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

Last week, long after most Britons had forgiven or forgotten Wodehouse's broadcasts, the controversy flared back with much of its wartime acrimony. It was ignited by Fellow Novelist Evelyn Waugh. In a BBC broadcast on the 20th anniversary of Connor's explosion, Waugh offered "An Act of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Plum Sees It Through | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

"Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be, and it is hereby made the duty of the President, Professors and Tutors of the University at Cambridge, Preceptors and Teachers of Academies, and all other instructors of youth, to take diligent care, and to exert their best...

Author: By Allan Kats, | Title: The Academic Suicide: Escape From Freedom | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

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