Word: hubert
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Thus the second question-Should a machine think?-answers itself. The question is not in fact the moral problem it at first appears, but purely a practical one. Yes, a machine should think as much as it can, because it can only think in limited terms. Hubert Dreyfus, a philosophy professor at Berkeley, observes that "all aspects of human thought, including nonformal aspects like moods, sensory-motor skills and long-range self-interpretations, are so interrelated that one cannot substitute an abstractable web of explicit beliefs for the whole cloth of our concrete everyday practice." Marianne Moore...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.--A $1.1 million center for the study of world peace, named for Harold E. Stassen, will be established at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs...
...Eisenhower's red pajamas with five stars on the lapels; Jimmy Durante's fedora and Henry Clay's boater; Teddy Roosevelt's Teddy bear; Mrs. Grover Cleveland's wedding-cake box; Abe Lincoln's frock coat; the chairs from the Kennedy-Nixon debate; Hubert Humphrey campaign cookies; Tom Seaver's college baseball uniform; waxed flowers from President Garfield's funeral; L.B.J FOR PRESIDENT lollipops in the shape of Texas; a swatch of material from the Red Baron's plane wing; a "Mr. Bones" skeleton puppet used in a vaudeville show; Jimmy...
Minneapolis named its new $55 million stadium after a delightfully long-winded favorite son. So it was no small irony that the roof of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome collapsed for lack of hot air. Two months ago, the stadium's ten-acre nylon cover was inflated with electric fans. Then a heavy snow came unexpectedly early: a hot-air melting system was not yet in full operation. The fabric big top sagged under the weight of the slush, then tore, and finally drooped to within 60 ft. of the field. It took four days to repair...
Price's manager, Hubert Dilworth, said yesterday. "I think it's wonderful--it's certainly deserved." Noting that Price has already received honorary degrees from Yale and Columbia, among other universities, but added that he did not know what kind of degree she would receive at Harvard...