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...there will be 5 million private computers in people's homes and available to students within two years; by 1982, he predicts, 80% of upper-middle-class families will have computers "capable of playing important roles in the intellectual development of their children." Says California Author Robert Albrecht, a pioneer of electronic education: "In schools, computers will be more common than carousel slide projectors, movie projectors and tape recorders. They'll be used from the moment school opens, through recess, through lunch period, and on as far into the day as the principal will keep the school open...
...that time, ultra-intelligent machines will be working in partnership with our best minds on all the serious problems of the day, in an unbeatable combination of brute reasoning power and human intuition. What happens after that? Dartmouth President John Kemeny, a pioneer in computer usage, sees the ultimate relation between man and computer as a symbiotic union of two living species, each completely dependent on the other for survival. The computer-a new form of life dedicated to pure thought-will be taken care of by its human partners, who will minister to its bodily needs with electricity...
Olivier may be the only reason for seeing The Betsy--which keeps threatening to be enjoyable garbage until you realize that it's over--but he's somehow lucky to pull it off while maintaining a modicum of dignity. The role, a pioneer auto industry tycoon, requires him to age from 45 to 85, but aside from hair color, there isn't much that can be done to erase the lines. Worse, he has an inadequate conception of an American accent; it spoiled his performance in Come Back, Little Sheba on television last month. Here he sounds Irish, Texan, forced...
...Israeli government's attitude toward the settlement is ambiguous. Ignoring the undeniable fact that homesteaders are living at the site, the government insists that the pioneer families are only an "archaeological delegation." Begin has refused to authorize any settlement at Shiloh, but at the same time the families there have been encouraged to believe that if they survive and prosper on their own, they may eventually win Jerusalem's approval. The government's neither-nor position has sparked bitter debates within Begin's Likud coalition between antisettlement pragmatists and nationalistic conservatives who support the community...
DIED. Wellwood E. Beall, 71, pioneer airplane designer and engineer; following surgery; in Santa Monica, Calif. During his 30 years with Boeing (1934 to 1964), Beall oversaw the development of the 314 Boeing Clipper, the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Superfortress of World War II; the B-47 and B-52 jet bombers; and the Boeing 707, the first commercial jet aircraft. In 1964 he became a corporate vice president with Douglas Aircraft...