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"Widening Every Minute." Von Foerster does not really believe that the human race will breed itself to universe-filling infinity in 66 years. He uses his equation to illustrate in an attention-getting manner that any population that increases at an accelerating rate (as the human race has been doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Doomsday in 2026 A.D. | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

Digitronics' electronic Berlitz can translate teletype and magnetic tape and punched cards into a common language, or even bypass punched cards entirely by taking information direct from the teletype to computers. First purchaser: Alcoa's Wear-Ever subsidiary. Wear-Ever will use the machine (price: $79,000) to take orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOMATION: Conversational Computerese | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

The Lincoln convertible rolled down the hill and straight into a filling station. The arresting blonde at the wheel told a solicitous mechanic that she was having trouble. He raised the hood, looked up wildly and announced: "Lady, you don't need a mechanic, you'd better call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: A Touch of Sadism | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

She has put the British people back on the stage, and the British people, of every variety, are filling the audience too. Long black Bentleys and Rolls-Royces of the Establishment quietly rubber into Stratford East every evening. But it is Joan Littlewood's proudest claim that two-thirds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: Strasberg-on-Avon | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

Despite its shortcomings, the program gave a long, detailed close-up of the Russian, his face alternately basking as if in sunlight and marinating in some quick-starting annoyance. Sipping his favorite Georgian mineral water or brooding while the interpreter did his work, K. sat impassively, his round head filling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Baying at the Moon | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

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