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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shiny affair like the business machines that keep records on punch cards. A student of cybernetics and automation, Paycha picked diseases of the cornea for his test effort. He punched hundreds of cards for the various symptoms and characteristics of corneal disease. Then he examined a patient, asked the usual questions and recorded the findings by hitting selected keys from 200 on the machine's keyboard. Examples: no ulceration (a negative sign can be as important as the positive), deep-seated opacity, deep-seated blood vessels, no edema, normal sensitivity. Then the machine sorted the cards, rejecting those that...
...successful music publisher). One of Duke's subsequent adventures was Jump for Joy, which he wrote and produced with a group of Hollywood artists. It was a revue designed to fight Uncle Tomism in the entertainment world, and the show folded after twelve weeks of backstage wrangling. As usual, Duke had written for his own band, and the band was in the pit. "We stayed out there for a while, just barely keeping our heads above water," he says. "But there were not enough people clamoring to buy at our price. So we put the price up. We gave...
...preparation for Final Exams, which take place Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of next week, Lamont Library will be open special hours this weekend. On Friday it will close at 9:30 p.m. instead of the usual 5:30, on Saturday it will be open from 8:45 a.m. until 5:30, and on Sunday from...
Next week's issue of the Summer News--the last one of the year--will come out somewhat later than usual on Thursday morning. It will thus be able to include a review of The Cambridge Drama Festival's Saint Joan, which opens in Sanders Theatre next Wednesday evening. The paper can be expected to appear well before lunch time at the Union and at other regular distribution points...
...after signing a construction contract, Niarchos believes in letting the shipbuilder do the job without niggling interference. Though the World Glory was the world's biggest tanker when it was launched in 1954, Niarchos gave Bethlehem Shipbuilding a scant four pages of specifications instead of the usual 4-lb. tome; he sent no inspectors aboard until just before the tanker was launched...