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...says Bush, who is recognized as the father of the modern analogue computer, is a crass misconception. In the current issue of FORTUNE, Bush explains that so exaggerated a faith in the powers of science is a residue of a naive 18th century belief in absolute "laws of na ture, based on observation and measurement." In this view, man himself is "merely an automaton, his fancied choice of acts an illusion," and the universe a great mechanical contraption ticking away according to a "neat set of equations." Thus, by observation, man "would be able to understand all nature and predict...
This is how ordinary TV pictures are built up, but the moon shots were scanned more slowly; photographic film was needed to blend them into a pic ture. While each picture was being drawn on the tube, a kinescope camera watched, keeping its shutter open just long enough to catch one entire shot. At intervals, the engineers snapped the face of the tube with a Polaroid camera and got an instant print that gave quick assurance that all was going well...
Explanatory theories have never been wholly convincing, but scientists keep trying. Now, in the magazine Na ture, Dr. Alexander T. Wilson of New Zealand's Victoria University of Wellington offers an intriguing solution. His reasoning points to Antarctica...
...time Welensky checked into the Hyde Park Hotel, Nationalist Kenneth Kaunda, top African leader in Northern Rhodesia, had already attended his first meeting with Britain's Deputy Prime Minister R. A. Butler to decide the fu ture course of Central Africa. Of rambunctious Sir Roy, Kaunda sneered, "We are here to rob him of his job. You might make him Lord Broken Reed." With Rab Butler, Kaunda and his fellow nationalist, Harry Nkumbula, argued for two hours Northern Rhodesia's right to secede, and asked why their country should be considered "the Cinderella of Central Africa." When Butler...
...skills. He can take a line, see eight ways to deliver it. and pick the one that will best serve his double purpose: to get an immediate laugh and also to deposit a bit of Benny characterization into the listeners' minds in order to draw interest for fu ture Benny lines, later in the show, later in the season, perhaps later in the 1960s and '70s. After a laugh line, Benny always has the next line. Thus he is the timer who decides when to let the audience tumble on and when to cut them...