Word: error
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Realizing the difficulty of absolute accuracy in strange fields, I am both sympathetic to and understanding of an error in your article on boating in which it was reported that free navigation courses are offered by "the Coast Guard's Power Squadrons" [Feb. 2]. The U.S. Power Squadrons is not related to the Coast Guard. It is an independent organization whose sole mission is to teach small-boat handling, free of charge, to anyone willing to attend its classes. Comprised of 369 squadrons located throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico, Okinawa, Hawaii, etc., it reaches some 70,000 students each...
Understandable Error. The end is nowhere in sight. Last week a European subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph floated a $50 million issue. Honeywell was devising final terms for a $30 million offering to be sold later in the month, and National Biscuit Co. also announced a $30 million issue. Underwriters predict that U.S. companies will soon announce plans to sell as much as another $200 million worth. "People have been flabbergasted by the volume," says Zurich Banker Hans...
...reflects a sense of responsibilities and some effort to meet them. Those who have served long enough to make some useful progress permit themselves a larger scope: 397 programs in 57 nations. That scope provides more evidence to weigh and an opportunity to repeat success and to learn from error...
After centuries of speculation, most of it idle and all of it profitless, typical gout was recognized in 1931 as an "inborn error of metabolism," indicating that something was wrong with the patients' enzyme systems. But what? Although it was easy to show that victims had an excess of uric acid in their blood, the metabolic pathways by which it got there remained hidden in the biochemical jungle. Then in Baltimore, Pediatrician William L. Nyhan Jr. and Dr. Michael Lesch saw two retarded brothers with the palsy and biting symptoms. It has since been learned that a substance...
...Thinking" computers, based on random functions, exist today. These machines, programmed to learn by trial and error as humans do, are essentially Turing's robot. Hence, Mortimer Adler's argument is obsolete-and man's uniqueness again becomes questionable...