Word: talled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Computers can do just about everything but leap tall buildings at a single bound, and someday they will be able to do that too. One long-range goal of the technicians in the Artificial Intelligence Lab is to build an "intelligent automaton" that could substitute for men on a Mars expedition. Carrying enough fuel to get to Mars and back seems impossible, so robots will have to go, explore, report back to earth and stay there (safely out of harm's way?). And since there would be a four-minute or worse radio time lag between here and there, communication...
...with 65% of the vote. Last summer he toppled Democratic Incumbent Edward V. Long in the primary. Now he has defeated an 18-year veteran of the House, scholarly, industrious Republican Thomas B. Curtis. The Kennedyesque liberal (Teddy made a campaign film with him) promises to be tall on domestic spending but short on military appropriations...
Died. Ramon Novarro, 69, silent film star, who in the 1920s vied with Rudolph Valentino as the screen's great Latin lover; of injuries suffered when he was bludgeoned in the bedroom of his home; in Hollywood Hills, Calif. Though only 5 ft. 8 in. tall, the handsome Mexican was a giant at the box office. In his 14-year career, he played opposite such leading ladies as Greta Garbo and Myrna Loy, appeared in scores of films, including The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) and Ben-Hur (1926), before fading out in the mid-1930s...
...fleet of trucks rumbled out of National Homes Corp.'s prefabrication plant in Lafayette, Ind., shortly after midnight, laden with six-ton sections of ready-to-live-in housing. Their destination was a Chicago ghetto 125 miles away. Less than 24 hours later, tall cranes had plucked the sections from the trucks and stacked them into eight two-story, four-bedroom homes ready for occupancy...
...house anthropometric specialists, most rely on outside consultants. In recent years, anthropometry has enabled manufacturers to develop movie cameras compact enough to fit snugly in one hand, more fully rounded typewriter keys that are kinder to secretaries' fingernails and elevator buttons that are within the reach of tall and short peo- ple alike...