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GEORGE B. GOMES Georgetown, British Guiana
...step for a computer to venture from the relatively precise fields of mathematics and physics into the more nebulous realm of language translation. But the IBM scientists and Georgetown University linguists who had helped set up the experiment thought it was an auspicious start. With a vocabulary of only 250 words, the machine was able to translate sentences dealing with politics, law, mathematics, chemistry, metallurgy, communications and military affairs. Samples: "Magnitude of angle is determined by the relation of length of arc to radius." "Starch is produced by mechanical methods from potatoes," "A military court sentenced a sergeant to deprival...
...computer is far from ready to translate a book from Russian to English. But, says Georgetown Scholar Leon Dostert: "Five, perhaps three, years hence, interlingual meaning conversion by electronic process . . . may well be an accomplished fact...
...gave no hint, by frizz or kink, that Sylvia's mother was "a low-class girl" of "Buck" (Guiana Indian) and Negro parentage. Sylvia could not claim to belong to "the respectable middle class" of old and established colored families, but she was tony enough to attend the Georgetown academy of Miss Jenkins (a colored lady who passed for white) and to look down on Negroes, Indians, Syrians, Chinese, Eurasians and mixtures thereof...
Arguing on both sides of the topic, "Resolved, that the U.S. should adopt a policy of free trade," the Crimson defeated Army, Georgetown, Merrimac, N.Y.U., Clarkson, Univ. of Maine, St. John's, and Wesleyan. It lost only to Middlebury and Penn. State...