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...find out where Red China does stand today, see FOREIGN NEWS, The Year of the Leap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...leap this communication barrier, Engineer-Lawyer Simon M. Newman of the Patent Office has been working out a synthetic language called Ruly English that is especially adapted to a computer's huge but simple brain; unlike ordinary, "unruly" English, it gives one and only one meaning to each word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ruly English | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...harsh noise of Communist China's bold new effort to reduce an entire people to the level of robots (TIME, Oct. 20) came the nightingale song of Radio Peking: "The people's communes are paradises. Manpower and material resources are more than in heaven. Industry and agriculture leap forward together, and one year equals thousands of years in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: The Ways of Paradise | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...player through experience and rule learning alone; the game requires thought. There are 635,013,559,600 possible bridge hands, and the value of every one can be modified, sometimes drastically, by the distribution of unseen cards in other hands. Even an incurably cautious bidder, for example, might well leap to a grand slam bid in hearts on this hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Aces | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...complex that it took him seven years to learn to brew a proper cup. Dosage for any and all mental ills: one piping hot cup the first day, three daily with meals for the next three days. Upjohn tried it on a white mouse, which is trained to leap onto a wooden block at the sound of a bell to escape an electric shock. After ten minutes the mouse walked sedately at the bell, after 30 minutes simply stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Upjohn's Medicine Man | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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