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With his short, rotund figure and his spade beard, Professor Norbert Wiener of M.I.T. looked like a harmless Santa Claus. Instead he bristled with versatility. He was a top-rank mathematician who fathered a new branch of science, an enthusiastic mountain climber, and a facile writer of both fiction and philosophy. He could talk intelligently on almost any subject. When he died of a heart attack in Stockholm last week, his colleagues the world over testified to a special sense of loss. For Wiener was one of a vanishing crew-a first-rate scientist whose curiosity and skills covered...
...Labor Party symbol is made up of three elements: the spade and pen, representing workers of both the hand and the brain, linked by the torch. The symbol came into being in 1918, following the formation of a new party constitution, and is thought to have been designed by Jimmie Middleton, who was then general secretary of the party. [For that original version, see cut.) The stylized version of the symbol that TIME used in the background of the Wilson cover portrait was prepared 2½ years ago by Jack Stoddard of the Labor Party's art department...
...PRISONER'S DREAM (Capitol). Charles Lee Guy III has been an inmate of California State Prison since he was 16. The songs he has learned to sing there all reflect his sorry circumstance-and among them is the latest composition of a prison chum, country music's Spade Cooley. Guy's woeful voice and guitar accompaniment fit the spirit of his music, and in this remarkable album he has the power of a young white Leadbelly...
Dodging stones, a British military attaché showed his contempt for the mob by parading in front of the embassy playing his bagpipes. In his glass-strewn office, Ambassador Gilchrist finally received a delegation of the rioters. A blunt, spade-bearded Scot who once dispersed an anti-British mob in Iceland by playing Chopin records from a phonograph set in his office window, Gilchrist explained to the rioters that the United Nations had sanctioned Malaysia, dismissed them with a contemptuous "Hidup [long live] U Thant...
Committee members have requested and received the Administration's analysis of the treaty's effects on nuclear strategy and weaponry. Some senators have wanted to use this information to show that Khrushchev could twist the treaty into a spade for burying us. Others want to show that he could...