Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...December cover of Scientific American is a four-color portrait of a camel wearing a nose cone and placidly taking a metabolism test. The table of contents scarcely suggests light reading: "Nucleic Acids and Proteins," "Differentiation in Social Amoebae," "The Proto-Castles of Sardinia." Even the department of games beginning on page 166 is strictly for mathematicians: three computer programers named Ames, Baker and Coombs set out to decide who pays for the beer, but instead of flipping a coin they apply algebraic group theory. (Baker pays...
...solution. "There are necessary limitations to the freedom of the press," he said. "And these limitations should be strictly determined on the basis of law." Beyond that, the Pope proposed an embargo by offended Catholic readers: "Do not buy, do not believe, do not favor, and do not even mention this perverted press...
Laboratories. In a corner of Leo's plastics factory in Boston, Mass., David developed a commercially produceable gold-bonded diode can electronic switching device for converting alternating current into direct current) that was better than anything on the market. But even after it had a product, Transitron had to wait a year before it could sell any. During that year, Leo poured nearly $400,000 into the new firm, which lost...
...best love story of the year, involving a grubby Paris background, an unstable German-American heroine and an even more unstable White Russian lover. Author Marsh spells out the simple truth that love is not always a pleasure...
ACROSS PARIS AND OTHER STORIES, by Marcel Aymé. Even in translation, these are the year's best short stories. French Author Aymé tells about seemingly ridiculous or fantastic situations in which ordinary Frenchmen find themselves lost. Wit and clean writing save him-if not his characters-at every turn...