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...this all-American paragon, oozing the sap of maple-sugared kindness? When ABC aired the Howard Hughes story, a made-for-TV film biography of the reclusive millionaire, the protagonist was unrecognizable. When, for instance, Lana Turner anticipated marrying him, she had all her sheets monogrammed HH; Hughes turned her down with "marry Huntington Hartford." A more sinister Hughes emerged from Film Maker Ron Lyon's experience. He had reckoned without his subject. When Lyon tried to obtain newsreel clips of Hughes, the only ones available were of him smiling and waving. Then the insurance company, doubtless aware...
...pupil, Lana quickly learned how to get her fill of her favorite grape juice ("Please machine give juice period") or pieces of banana. But could she also learn to pay heed to the symbols displayed on the screen-in effect, to read...
...Lana's tutors flashed parts of sentences on the screen: "Please machine give ..." Almost always, Lana punched out the correct completion. When the researchers tried to trick her with jumbled syntax-like "Please make machine ..."-Lana usually wiped out the sentence by indignantly punching the period key, which cleared the computer and the screen...
...Lana has learned about 75 words-which her trainers regard as only a start. As they teach Lana more words they hope to increase their understanding of how chimps actually learn a language, and to gain new insights into how those skills are acquired by humans. What they learn could eventually be useful in teaching youngsters with language difficulties. It could also open a new channel of communication between man and animal. "Wouldn't you like to know what a chimp thinks about?" says Georgia State University Psychologist Duane M. Rumbaugh...
...Perhaps one day Lana or another chimp can act as an interpreter between their world and ours...