Word: matings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago. Purdue University's Professor John E. Gibson, 36, warned the businessmen and scientists assembled for the National Electronics Conference that man's lead over the machine might soon be drastically narrowed. Working together with seven other Purdue professors and 60 graduate students, Gibson is preparing to "mate" an analogue computer, which solves mathematical problems in a flash, with a digital computer, which possesses a superior "memory." Gibson's belief is that when the combined machines encounter a strange situation, they will be able to reason out a solution for it on the strength of their recorded...
...Style. In the U.S., when a man wants a divorce, he goes to court; in Italy, so the wise guys say, he goes to a gunsmith. Why? For two reasons: 1) divorce is illegal in Catholic Italy; 2) the penalty for a "crime of honor" (the murder of a mate discovered in adultery) is light-with plenty of time-off for good behavior. The situation horrifies modern-minded Italians, but what can they do about it? Director Pietro Germi has done something wildly, wickedly, wonderfully funny about it. In one of the cleverest comedies ever made in Italy...
...Challenge. Everett Dirksen was once a man of vaulting ambition. He campaigned seriously for the Republican nomination for President in 1944. He badly wanted to be Taft's vicepresidential running mate in 1952. Now he is happy where he is, and has a deep sense of fulfillment. "Life," he muses, "is a matter of development or decay. You either grow or you retrogress. There's no standing still. You go backward or forward. The challenge will make you grow, if you are willing to assert a leadership and look on the challenge as something...
...Life that appeared six years later. But the published Tour varied considerably from the actual journal that Boswell kept, most of which turned up a generation ago in a croquet box at an Irish castle. First brought out in 1936. the journal is now reprinted with much supplementary mate rial drawn from documents that have since come to light. Densely annotated, the present volume is as formidable as Johnson, but much of it, freed of foot notes, is also as chatty as only Boswell could...
...sees that Heston took two inches off his waistline, he figures he can do it too. We tell the reader how to be attractive but not how to catch a mate or how to be sexy-we never use that word." By always being cheerful and never being sexy, the Churchill sisters pry glamour tips from Hollywood stars and pass them along in panting prose. ("The best-made plans of damsels and designers can swirl down the fashion drain if you aren't wearing the proper foundation under your basic dress.") They never miss a chance to add that...