Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...January 23, TIME's cover story on Mark III, the automatic computing machine, has continued to make news. Newspapers around the world carried stories on it. The important Soviet bi-weekly journal Literaturnaya Gazeta even devoted part of its May 4 issue to a splenetic, windy attempt to knock MarkIII's mechanical brains out. And now it has turned up in the never-never world of the funnies...
...which is one that has the greatest mouth, whom he brings to the market with a bowl" to spit the liquor in. "The seller looks narrowly to the man's mouth that measures it, and if he happens to swallow any down . . . the merchant . . . does not scruple to knock the fellow down . . . Thereupon the buyer finds another mouthpiece...
Much different was the behavior of pigeons trained to compete in fierce individual enterprise. Pigeons that got this conditioning were put on opposite sides of a small table and urged to knock a ping-pong ball back & forth between them (see cut). When the ball was missed, it fell into a trough and released some grain for the opponent. Pigeons that played this game quickly caught the competitive spirit: until Dr. Skinner decided to restrain them with wire shields, a loser sometimes tried to fly over the table and murder his victorious opponent...
...Knock Them Down." For youngsters between 14 and 24, the fun gets more intense. A million of them belong to the FDJ proper. High-school students who want to graduate or attend universities have little chance if they do not join the FDJ. Poorer children, who must go to work early, find it hard to get jobs without the FDJ membership card. The FDJ is in charge of all sports in the Soviet zone; grey heads have to ask FDJ adolescents for fishing and hunting licenses...
...chieftains was well-expressed by agile, aggressive Robert Bialek, who explained: "We'll take care of our church and political enemies. You sock them in the teeth until they fall. Then they write a letter of protest. You let them get up, read the letter, and then knock them down again...