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...Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill, N. J. lives a mechanical mouse named Theseus, the creature of Dr. Claude Shannon, Bell computer authority. It was named after the Greek mythological hero who went into the Cretan labyrinth and slew the Minotaur. But Theseus Mouse is cleverer than Theseus the Greek, who could not trust his memory but had to unwind a ball of string to guide him out of the labyrinth...
Bell Telephone's labyrinth is about half as big as a desk top and is fitted with aluminum partitions which can be shifted around among 40 different slots. Theseus himself has only a mouse-shaped wooden body, three small wheels and whiskers of copper wire. Inside him is nothing but a bar-magnet. His brains are outside him, under the floor of the labyrinth. They are a complicated array of relays...
...Shannon sets up the labyrinth in a pattern unfamiliar to Theseus. Then he places his mouse at an arbitrary point on the metal floor. At first Theseus does not behave very intelligently. He blunders around, bumping his copper whiskers against the aluminum walls. When he hits an obstacle, he turns away and tries it again. By such trial & error, Theseus finally gets through the labyrinth and ends the play by touching the "cheese," an electrical terminal that rings a bell...
British battleship Anson, the British carriers Implacable, Victorious and Theseus, the French carrier Arromanches, three British and five French cruisers, and 21 destroyers and destroyer escorts-headed in convoy for the Bay of Biscay. Submarines launched dummy torpedoes, French and British carriers exchanged air strikes, bombers roared overhead. Meanwhile, smaller craft of the Belgian navy joined other Western Union ships in mine-sweeping operations in Weymouth...
...necessary armaments to ward off an attacking Greek army. As long as Hippolyta wears her golden girdle, the women will rule. So the Greeks send Hercules to challenge the Queen in combat and get that girdle. Hoppolyta gives it to Antiope, the mighty huntress, who loses it to Theseus, the handsome Greek warrior, while learning how a man makes love. Sapiens, let loose in the Greek camp, discovers his manhood, asserts his authority as king, and establishes for all time the dominance of masculinity...