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...year (beginning April 5) had an extra day, and the half year was therefore 183 days. The revenue people, determined to get their man, dug up an 1842 tax law which says that six months means six lunar months. This would have defeated Wilkie but Judge Sir Terence Norbert Donovan ruled the 1842 law out of date. Britain's Solicitor General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, for the Inland Revenue Commissioners, then argued that an old general rule of law states that fractions of days shall be treated as whole days. Thus, both June 2 and Dec. 2 counted...
...NORBERT ENGELS South Bend...
Regarding your Nov. 27 article on Norbert Wiener...
Three years ago Norbert Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., was a "longhair" who had coined the word "cybernetics"* to wrap up the many-sided science of communication and control devices. Now Wiener's book, Cybernetics (TIME, Dec. 27, 1948), is a classic, and Wiener is a prophet who is listened to by shorthaired, hardheaded businessmen. Many of them agree wholeheartedly that the "cybernetic revolution" he predicted is already in progress...
...Scientists must not be milked dry and then hung like witch doctors," said Norbert Wiener of M.I.T., at last night's Law Forum. He urged freedom of scientific thought and inquiry...