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...little discipline" and need to be "held to certain ideals." She has the credentials to back up her comment. In 56 years of marriage, she and her engineer husband have seen their six children become a university president, a company vice president, a top corporation lawyer, a mathematician, a physicist, a housewife, and have themselves become grandparents 26 times over. Obviously such a brood exemplifies "family life at its very best," and so the American Mothers Committee, Inc., picked Lorena Chipman Fletcher, 76, from outstanding mothers across the country, proclaimed her 1965's "Mother of the Year...
Those words of Lord Kelvin, the famous British physicist, are carved in stone above the entrance to the Detroit headquarters of American Motors Corp. American was certain that it had thought of a better way when it led the massive consumer shift to compact, economy cars in the late 1950s. It is less certain today. For the past two years, affluent consumers have been moving up to larger, more luxurious cars, and American's sales and profits have been steadily declining. Last week, after Detroit's Big Three had all reported record earnings in the first quarter...
Died. Sir Edward Victor Appleton, 72, renowned British physicist and principal of Edinburgh University, who in 1924 proved that there were ionized layers in the upper atmosphere by bouncing short-length radio waves off them, a technique that made worldwide radio communication practicable, led directly to Britain's development of radar (thus giving the R.A.F. a crucial advantage over the numerically superior Luftwaffe), and won for the pioneering scientist the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics; of a stroke; in Edinburgh...
...Materialistic-Physicist...
...have been traced, and they may never be. It is clear, however, that each neuron is itself like a computer, and that eventually the idea that a machine has humanlike intelligence will become part of folklore. "We'll laugh at the idea," says Dr. Herbert Teager, an M.I.T. physicist, "as we do at Descartes' theory that the pineal gland is the center of the mind...