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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles' White Memorial Medical Center, the Analyzer was ranged against cardiologists using ECG machines. The new device thought it saw abnormalities in 5.6% of cases where they did not exist, which only meant a bit more work for the experts. On the other hand, it failed to detect a real abnormality in 2.7% of the cases examined. But Thiokol scientists say this percentage can be reduced by technical changes...
...their kind of personal journalism has its dangers, warns Fleming. It is based on the "more or less tacit consensus of the intellectual establishment that objectivity does not exist. Hence the personal comment which attempts to do no more than state one man's point of view on a certain patch of experience." "Pure objectivity," he says, is probably an unattainable ideal. "But this does not mean that it should be abandoned any more than we should stop trying to tell each other the truth because an awful lot of people in this world are liars...
...declaration of war. "The language," he said, "clearly indicates that Congress recognized and declared that the Gulf of Tonkin attack precipitated a state of armed conflict." Judge Paul J. Kilday did not think the Tonkin resolution constituted a declaration of war, but he did think that "abundant authority exists to make clear that a condition of war between states may exist without a formal declaration." For precedents, he began back in 1800 when Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington (nephew to George) held that some minor naval skirmishing between France and the U.S. amounted to a state...
...lyrical phallic montage, Un Chant D'Amour; is in its own strange fashion one of the most intense statements of masculine potency on film. While Genet assaults his audience with one or another shocking perversion, he is also telling them that abnormality does not, in the last analysis, exist and sexual perversion, regardless of its nature, is as divine a form of love as those more commonly sanctioned...
...course, a lot of exceptions to the consensus exist, but almost every girl who beamed and said, "I've met some fabulous fellows here," admitted that these types were hard to find. As a rule, they don't saunter around Harvard Yard...