Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pins in the lobby of Houston's Music Hall, banners and paper hatbands urged the selection of the evening's speaker as President of the U.S., and cops sprouted like potted palms. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had come to town, infecting Houston (pop. 897,600) with a slight case of the disease, symptomized by a rash of extremism, known as Little Rock fever...
Most topical of all, Humphrey and Khrushchev discussed Soviet intentions in Berlin, and Humphrey was convinced that Khrushchev means business-up to a point: "I don't think he's going to back down, but I believe he's left a slight loophole or two-a slight escape hatch." Humphrey "hammered it in" that Americans regardless of political party affiliation, support President Eisenhower in his determination to stand fast in Berlin...
...computer men have been able to build only a slight amount of learning ability into a few experimental machines. But they have great plans for the future. Dr. S. Gill of Ferranti Ltd. (British computer manufacturer) said that machines that can really learn will have vast abilities. They will compose music, their style of composition varying with the kinds of music they have been "listening to." They will operate airway control systems. They may even perform surgical operations, watching their own incisions and stitching with television eyes, keeping track automatically of the patient's blood pressure, respiration...
...Weinberg lives relatively simply, still commutes from the Westchester County (Scarsdale) house that he and his wife bought in 1923. He has two sons, one a partner in Goldman, Sachs and the other an executive at Owens-Corning Fiberglas. His chief recreation is his work; he shows only slight signs of slackening his pace. Says Weinberg, who takes only an occasional cocktail: "My grandfather drank half a pint of whisky a day and lived to be 90. Maybe at 75 I'll try that...
MURDER ON TRIAL, by Michael Underwood (Washburn; $2.95), represents "detection slight but genuine...