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Laurence did not entirely concur with this prediction, even though it came from Einstein. He has the scientist's habit of storing odd bits of information until they mesh, and by 1939 a pattern had begun to form. Routinely covering a scientific meeting at Columbia University that year, he...
Few observers cared to contest that prediction on the basis of the varsity's performance Saturday. After getting the traditional miscues over with early in the first quarter, the Crimson began playing football--for real. Once the Indians had scored after their interception of Mike Bassett's pass on Harvard...
Man the Symbol. There is another sort of personnel problem too. Scientists not directly concerned with manned space flight are almost unanimous in their conviction that the U.S. reach for the moon has been hampered by the insistence on sending men along. "Man as a mechanism is superfluous," says one...
The two psychologists maintained that by using "prediction devices to deter-veloping into persistent delinquents because of faulty parental attitudes and behavior," it will be possible "to detect early signs of impending trouble and furnish skillful and timely therapy and instruction to children and parents in situations found to be...
Brash Cassius Clay, now the leading pretender to Liston's throne, entered the ring after the bout and proclaimed, "I'm done with talking; I want to fight." And, he warned, "If he gives me any jive, I'll cut the prediction to five."