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Though not yet ready for production, the rectifier has demonstrated its effectiveness in laboratory tests. In one instance, a father was able to read his children a bedtime story for the first time in his life. In another, a young man who could not utter a single intelligible word in a five-minute reading test donned the rectifier and read for five minutes with only 26 speech blocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Relief for the Stutterer | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...seen that dark beauty before? Peter Diamond, director of the Edinburgh International Festival and a man notorious among his friends for forgetting names, decided on the classic male approach. "Excuse me," he said, "but I think I know you. Haven't we met before?" A look of utter incredulity swept over the features that are engraved on the minds of millions of male moviegoers. "The name," came the reply, "is Elizabeth Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 20, 1970 | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

...word song is accepted by scientists and musicians because whales, like birds, utter sounds in sequences that are repeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sing, Cetacea, Sing! | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...deposed Chief of State, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Chairman appeared on the red-lacquered rostrum in Peking's Tienanmen Square during a mass rally protesting the U.S. role in Indochina. His statement, which was read to the throng by Lin, claimed that the U.S. had been reduced to "utter chaos at home and extreme isolation abroad." In a rare use of first-person language, Mao's statement went on: "I am convinced that the American people who are fighting valiantly will ultimately win victory and that the fascist rule in the U.S. will inevitably be defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Back in the Arena | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

...read Wednesday's (May 27) CRIMSON with utter incredulity. Are we so morally, spiritually, and intellectually corrupt as to allow a small group of "radical students" to decide that Steven Kelman should not speak at this year's commencement because they happen not to like his views? Ubinam gentium sumus...

Author: By Joel Porte, | Title: The Mail SPLIT DOOR PANELS | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

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