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...step for a computer to venture from the relatively precise fields of mathematics and physics into the more nebulous realm of language translation. But the IBM scientists and Georgetown University linguists who had helped set up the experiment thought it was an auspicious start. With a vocabulary of only 250 words, the machine was able to translate sentences dealing with politics, law, mathematics, chemistry, metallurgy, communications and military affairs. Samples: "Magnitude of angle is determined by the relation of length of arc to radius." "Starch is produced by mechanical methods from potatoes," "A military court sentenced a sergeant to deprival...
...British Commonwealth crowned its Queen in elegance that momentarily revived a great past and lifted spirits. But the vast realm over which she reigns trembled again with the ague of disintegration-the Sudan broke away, all colonial Africa throbbed with the presence or possibility of violence and shouts for independence. The Queen was Britain's Woman of the Year; Britain's Man was clearly its great, aging, political chieftain, newly knighted Sir Winston Churchill...
...choice was no accident. Buck and Conant had watched him carefully since before the war. They were impressed with his ideas that an education school should not be a place where only practical teaching is taught. Keppel's hypothetical school would draw its faculty from the whole realm of the social sciences, not only professional teachers. These ideas closely matched those of Conant...
...Photographer Zerbe is probably aware that Architect Wright also has something to say on that subject: ". . . What is taste? What conscience is in morals, taste is, no doubt, in the realm of esthetics. It is a mysterious authority, neither learned nor reasoned but there, regardless . . . In simplest terms taste is indeed what we like . . . In the modern world, however, taste is not homogeneous...
...school in Fiji, a road in Jamaica and a cathedral in New Zealand. If all this does not in itself add up to history, the tact, charm and grace with which Elizabeth and her husband perform their courtesy calls will have an important bearing on the future of their realm...