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Invented by a seven-man committee, including Conservative M. P. Isaac James Pitman (grandson of shorthand's Sir Isaac Pitman), the all-lower-case new alphabet is longer than the old one. While eliminating q and x, it retains all other conventional letters and adds 19 new sound symbols (e.g., ae in the first line of the sample above). In theory, this reduces some 2,000 letter sounds in the regular alphabet to a piano-sized 88. Using the new system, a few retarded readers have already been rapidly cured. But the obvious problem is what happens later, when...
...dimensions. The split was papered over at the meeting of all the world's 81 Communist parties in Moscow last winter. Last week there was new evidence that the quarrel between the partners is becoming increasingly acrimonious. Writing in the London Sunday Times, Polish-born Kremlinologist Isaac Deutscher revealed an astonishingly bitter, point-by-point indictment of Peking policy "just sent out from Khrushchev's offices in Moscow to the headquarters o-f several foreign Communist parties." Among Moscow's complaints...
Last week Maine's Governor John H. Reed signed a bill that made his state the first to adopt the Durham Rule. Ironically, pioneer New England Psychiatrist Isaac Ray, while living in Maine, proposed an almost identical rule in 1838-five years before the House of Lords laid down the vexed M'Naghten Rule. New Hampshire adopted Dr. Ray's rule in 1870. The Durham Rule is the Ray Rule in up-to-date language...
Streetcar Blur. Ballistocardiographers, led by the University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Isaac Starr, contend that measurements of these and of minor additional thrusts show how well the heart and arteries are working. But the accelerations must be measured in thousandths of a G (the pull of gravity). No building is steady enough to be free of movements that confuse the sensitive machine. In Philadelphia, Dr. Starr got blurs on his ballistocardiograms every time a streetcar rumbled by eight floors below. To cushion out such vibrations, researchers have turned to various systems of floating the body-strapped to a board...
...Jack Benny" was the billing for the concert honoring the onetime boy violin prodigal, now 67, who in the past few years has scraped away to raise more than $2,000,000 for symphony orchestras in 16 U.S. cities. Climax of the evening was the appearance of Carnegie President Isaac Stern, who joined the comedian in Bach's Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins. In the afternoon rehearsal, while Benny fiddled, Stern burned: "I wish you'd play C-sharp." "Where?" wondered Benny. Advised Stern: "Where it's written." But during the actual program, Jack somehow...