Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ELECTRONIC computers have not learned, so far, to act as art critics or judges of beauty contests, but they are being taught to see. What may come of this? For a look forward at the sobering prospects, read SCIENCE, Seeing-Eye Computer...
Pressing the Flesh. Yet Lyndon Johnson, who worries constantly about being misunderstood, understands others. He is a student of people from the moment of introduction, when he goes through a process he calls "pressing the flesh and looking them in the eye." Says he: "When you extend a handshake to a fellow, you can sort of feel his pulse and evaluate him by the way his hand feels. If it's warm and if it has a firm clasp, then you know that he is affectionate and that he is direct. And if he looks you in the eye...
Love That Line! Such was the eye-popping pace of Menshikov's diplomacy that almost nobody had time to find out what Smiling Mike was made of. He was born in the village of Posevkino in the Voronezh district of Russia in 1902, graduated from Moscow's Plekhanov Institute of National Economy in 1929, hobnobbed up through the Kremlin bureaucracy to become an aide to Foreign Trade Expert Anastas Mikoyan. As UNRRA representative in Poland (1945), Menshikov used U.N. prestige to help dignify Communism's grip, angered idealistic U.N. staffers by twisting U.N. ideals to Kremlin ends...
Westerners were inclined to doubt the whole story. They pointed out that Saud was unlikely to use checks, that the choice of courier was improbable-Assad Ibrahim was reportedly only a simple Syrian farmer until his daughter caught the eye of one of Saud's roving agents and was installed as a favorite in the royal harem (Ibrahim's brother drives a taxicab in Damascus...
Star Boarder. In Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., jailers kept a special eye on new Convict (for robbery) Arthur Lariviere, who, as "The Great Adano" once won bookings with a circus as a result of a stunt escape from the Sault Ste. Marie jail...