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...years it has been a favorite cruelty of children to tie cherry bombs to cats' tails. Now the Rand Corp.'s "Soviet Cybernetics Review" reports an intricate variation: Russian scientists, says Rand, are studying the feasibility of training a cat to pilot air-to-air missiles to their targets...
...16th century; "they are two Pettifoggers in the Lawe." Pettifoggery has come to mean legal chicanery, and last week a Senate subcommittee consultant used the word to describe a weakness of U.S. negotiators in dealing with Communist powers. Dr. Fred Charles Iklé, head of social science at the Rand Corp., argued that U.S. diplomats tend to get lost in tactical detail unrelated to their basic aims. He added: "A great many capable officials are then forced to labor intensively on these details like pettifogging lawyers." Dr. Iklé also observed that American negotiators give "excessive attention to ephemeral rhetoric...
Accurate Jumps. The use of many voices also provides great breadth. Sally Rand gives some flavor of the times, and herself, when she notes: "Friends of mine who had been to Harvard, Yale and Princeton jumped out of windows. With accuracy." The insularity of the rich sometimes speaks in the person of a psychiatrist. The most wonderful kind of servants could be had for a pittance, he recalls. "That's when people were peddling apples and breadlines were forming. But on the whole, don't forget, the highest unemployment was less than 20%." A Chicago M.D. with many...
Died. Dr. Gertrude Rand Ferree, 84, who with her late husband Dr. Clarence Ferree made major strides in the study of human vision; in Stony Brook, N.Y. Co-holder of a dozen patents for lighting devices, optical and ophthalmological instruments, she played a major role in the development of the famed Hardy-Rand-Rittler color plates (numerals outlined by dots in subtly shaded hues) universally used to identify types of color deficiency and color blindness...
Manufacturers who strove for years to take noise out of their products are now engineering it back in. Sperry Rand announced an especially quiet Remington electric typewriter, only to find that secretaries complained that the new model was slow and stiff. In fact, the quiet model was at least as fast and workable. Without the old hum, however, typists had the impression that they were working less briskly. Hoover Co. had the same experience. Their engineers perfected an almost whooshless vacuum cleaner that promised to be a smashing success. But housewives, who associate noise with power, assumed that...