Word: effect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bureau hopes that it will do many important seeing jobs faster and better than humans can. One project is to make it produce contour maps from air photographs. It will do such monotonous jobs 24 hours a day without getting tired or bored. Human factors will have little effect on the seeing-eye computer. It may even learn in time to search through a rogues' gallery and pick out a single face. It will judge by the stable features and will not be misled by beards, scars or other embellishments...
Psychologist Pratt had a calming effect on the poltergeist-or perhaps on young Jimmy. For Jimmy had been present at most of the mysterious happenings and, as Dr. Pratt pointed out, poltergeist phenomena are commonly associated with adolescents. At any rate, no sooner had Dr. Pratt returned to Duke when back came the poltergeist...
...appealed. While a strong commissioner could ignore most of these influences and make his own decisions, it rarely happens in practice. The FCC has declined for seven years to make a decision on pay TV because Congress has frowned on it. FPC let gas companies put increases into effect while waiting for an FPC decision; a court recently upset the practice when the city of Memphis complained (TIME, Dec. 23). Until the Supreme Court rules on the matter-perhaps in a year or so-much expansion in the gas industry has been shelved...
...made some agencies obsolete. The Interstate Commerce Commission, established to protect the public from railroad monopoly, has been outmoded by the growth of competing trucks, buses and airlines. Its tight control of railroad routes and rates, which of.ten keep the railroads from cutting to compete, has a strangling effect. Many transportation experts feel that the ICC should be abolished...
Nobel Prizewinner Albert Camus is a writer without small talk. His themes-life, love, death, man, God, time-are large and universal. He returns to them in this collection of six short stories, but the net effect-after his brilliant novel The Fall-is oddly anticlimactic. The trouble seems to lie in the triumph of symbol over substance. He offers a series of intellectual puzzlers in which the clues are elusive, though the humanistic passion that runs through them is strong and clear, reflecting Camus' vision of art as a moral inquiry into man's fate...