Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happen that the ape who eventually developed the superintelligence was the one who in the beginning didn't have the sense to stay in the forests where he had adequate food and protection? If the ape-man became hairless so he could outrun his prey, why didn't the animals who outran the ape-man to escape him become hairless in the same process? Why should the ape-man evolve into a two-legged animal as a result of trying to run faster while the fleetest members of the animal kingdom remained quadrupeds? The answer is found...
...calm it down. Meeting with key congressional experts on foreign af fairs and atomic energy at the White House, he emphasized the need to take a calm approach and give diplomacy every opportunity to work. And if it did not? Nobody was willing to guess just what would happen...
Didn't just happen to meet...
...preferred risks"-drivers who seldom drive and people most likely to impress juries if they do get into trouble. As a result, thousands of unpreferred motorists have been unceremoniously stripped of their policies or forced to pay sky-high surcharges, not only because of accidents, but sometimes because they happen to live in "red line" (claim-prone) areas or belong to supposedly risky groups-a category that includes the young, the old, Negroes, actors, barbers, bartenders, sailors, soldiers and men with frivolous nicknames like "Shorty." Divorcees are often blackballed because they might irk women jurors; doctors and clergymen are frowned...
...Bliss, perhaps. But with Saunders running things, certainly not tranquillity. Honoring Saunders last week with its annual Benjamin Franklin award, Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club summed up the situation pretty well. "When Benjamin Franklin arrived in Philadelphia," said a society spokesman at the presentation ceremonies, "things began to happen. It's the same with Stuart Saunders...