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Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins of the University of Edinburgh is trying to make computer models of the way people produce sentences and understand language. Floyd Bloom, 37, chief of the laboratory of neuropharmacology at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md., and Walle Nauta, 57, of M.I.T., are using special staining techniques to trace the brain's neuronal pathways. "We have a long way to go," says Bloom, "but every little piece of information we gather leads us toward a better understanding of the way that the brain reacts to the outside world...
Pocomoke City, Md...
...bench, fingering some notes that he had written on an envelope, still a tall, erect, impeccably tailored figure. But his face was gaunt, and the familiar baritone, once so sternly confident and self-righteous, was surprisingly soft. Last week Spiro Agnew appeared in a hushed and packed Annapolis, Md., courtroom to fight what one of his attorneys called "professional decapitation''-disbarment...
Died. Charles Greeley Abbot, 101, astrophysicist, inventor and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1928-44; in Riverdale, Md. In 1972, a crater on the moon's dark side was named for Abbot, who spent more than 70 years studying the effects of solar radiation on terrestrial weather patterns and patented numerous devices for converting the sun's heat into energy...
...seemed like a good idea in 1971, when the weekly Montgomery County, Md., Sentinel decided to offer readers an unusual consumer service by rating all 22 of the county's high school principals. Two young Sentinel reporters questioned parents, teachers and students. The criteria: how successfully each principal had "established a positive, open learning atmosphere in his high school-the extent to which he leads instead of drives the students...