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7 1 lirut: 1 ''i- 1 1 1 fH- i i 1 I iih i i 1 1 8unday March 3 1957 Kingsport Times-News 5-B ICITTbCiUZi Mail Has Chess Opponent 11 In Electronic Machine Louella Parsons -w Spape Age begins Man Is Taking First Step Into Space With Satellite Two cant live as cheaply as one because one cant even do it 1 HOLLYWOOD March 2 (INS) that Red Skelton received aa Hollywood Is Talking "about: AH the Emmy nomination to" momentarily things there are to talk about with Hollywood doings popping all over the front pages June Allyson asking Dick Powell for a separation he doesnt want the controversial Academy Award nominations (many puzzled that Elizabeth Taylor for Giant and Paul Newman for Somebody Up There Likes Me were ignored) the midnight parting of Lana and Lex he-who-gets-slapped Frank Sinatra both with a subpoena in bed and by Rex lighten Rgsa heartache over tale sons tragic illness Marilyn Monroes highly nervous condition following Arthur Miller's contempt'of Congress citation She hasnt appeared in public since the blow fell Rosemary Clooney obviously meaning her words when she married Jose Ferrer "We hope to have a large family with the Ferrers expecting their third baby in between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Yankees at Wrigley Field when Babe Ruth so the legend goes pointed with his bat toward the right center field bleachers in a gesture that said Til park the next one up there He did Commented Walsh: "The situation is not much different with us On July 29 1955 Eisenhower -announced Michigan Prison Paper -Wins Awards Oo-tbber Anthony Quinns assignment to direct The Buccaneer for Cecil De Mllie at Paramount in view of the ironic note that Tony once left that lot because he didnt want It said he was there because of his father-in-law who Just happens to be Ceclle De Mllie Lauren Bacall listening with interest to an offer to tour with "Designing Woman unless a script she particularly likes comes along The film-career of Sandra Dee New Yorks highest paid teenage model who earned $78000 last year and is accepting much less to make Until They Sail with Jean Simmons and Paul Newman at MGM Just to get started In the movies David Nivens zinging rise to the top with such hits as-Around the World In 80 Days impressively As a result of these games Dr Ulam believes maniac can be taught to play "real chess on a standard board and using even longer chains The human brain however still holds the advantage Dr Ulam feels Maniac has to consider7 all legal chains whether or not they are good or even sensible by a trial and error method before rejecting them It is able to do this cumbersome figuring because of its unique ability to make some 10000 calculations per second The human brain on the other jecta all but a few of these chains almost Instantaneously and subjects the remaining chains td close scrutiny How the brain does this Dr Ulam remarks is a great mystery tied in with the mechanism of thought No machine can -duplicate this feat But further research Dr Ulam concludes may help science understand the functioning of the brain itself certainly the most efficient chess-playing machine yet imaginable SCIENCE OUTLOOK Dr Lee De Forest inventor of the television vacuum tube and father of American electronics predicts trans oceanic television is less than 10 years away thanks to new knowledge of the ionosphere the layer of air that makes world-wide radio communication possible Harrison in the face Proof that the business men now heading Hollywood studios will no longer put up with temperamental outbursts itt thfe removal of German star Fischer from the cast of "My Man Godfrey right in the middle of production And UTs $131860 damage suit against him The $600000 Gary Cooper will rake in as his cut on Friendly Persuasion nice persuading Lana Turner's wistful plaint: Somewhere there must be some happiness for me Marlon Brando barring writer Truman Capote off the Set of Sayonara after hearing he was there to pen a pithy article Isnt Bing Crosby quietly dating Inger Stevens his leading lady in Man On Fire? Tie happiness of all Hollywood bank of lights winks green Coining up on X-minus-one-minute Mar? Coming up on G-minus-one-minute Voltages are checked Pressure in the rocket JUnka is metered Rocket clear Recorders on Ten nine eight seven Ready lights are all green A slim crew-cut man in an Ivy League-suit bli: Fire The instrument cable drops from the nose Umbilical cord is severed and a rocket is born A Jet of steam a blinding flash -a great billow of smoke and the rocket edges off the ground wavers seems poised for a long moment on its fiery Jet exhaust Now the shuddering rocket gathers speed and roaring mightily cleaves the Florida sky The space age has begun The men working to make the scene described here come true were asked to compare the task before them with some previous spisode in history One suggested a parallel between the earth satellite effort and Christopher Columbus voyage into the unknown Another rocket man felt the project resembled what the Wright Brothers did at Kitty Hawk in 1903 There from Kill Devil Hill man after centuries of earth-bound existence threw off the -shackles of gravity for a few precious seconds A third scientist compared the satellite program to the development of the first atomic bomb Paul Walsh the slim crew-cut engineer who Vhs day-to-day responsibility for prefect vanguard says it is like all these things rolled into one the bomb Columbus Wright Brothers But there is another element Walsh adds He recalled the 1932 World Series the 8 w'ould get at least one earth satellite into orbit sometime during International Geophysical Year July I 1957 to December 31 1958 That meant we have to knock one out of the park or look pretty bad Another vanguard man broke in: The situation is really different Ruth was a home run hitter: if he had never before hit a ball out of the infield and then pointed to the bleachers and blasted it out that would have been like vanguard (Next: The Challenge and the Dream) TIGER TREES EM CHULA VISTA Calif Tiger is not a police dogbut he aided police recently in catching two youths charged with stealing an auto Harold Morgan said he awoke to see his car going down the street He said two boys who were pushing it Jumped into a neighbors yard Tiger a male brlndle boxer also awoke When police arrived they found Tiger had the boys treed in a corner of the yard iV When you're buying tangerines and pranges look for good color no bruises and wplght that's heavy for the size WITH a WITH Man takes his first big step this year into the space age As part of the American contribution to tho International Geophysical Year July I 1957 to Dec 31 1958 scientists have been ordered to launch a tiny earth satellite into outer space This is Project Vanguard The drama of this project its role in preparing Ict manned flights to other planets and the remarkable men of Vanguard are described in the series that starts today By EDWIN DIAMOND' International News Service Science Writer CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (INS) -Its shortly before 8 on a lush warm evening in late 1957 or early in 1958 The suns last rays lighten the sky to the west but overhead the first stars gleam whitely against the blue-black velvet background of the clear still Florida sky To the east over the Atlantic night has come Across a sandy hook of land a loudspeaker voice booms out: Coming up on X-minus-ten-mlnutes Mark X-minus-ten-niinutes The stage is set for mans first step into space at Cape Canaveral Fla At 'X-minus-ten-minutes being the mathematical symbol for the unknown quantity in an equa ticn and therefore used by rocket men as the undetermined time of launching the center of attraction comes alive Electric power and then hydraulic power are turned on in the long pencil-slim rocket which stands seven stories tall and is pointed skyward Nestled inside its silver nose is the medicine ball sized sphere that will soon become mankinds first artificial space satellite if all goes well Four giant searchlights bathe the poised rocket in light 1 The rocket stands alone on its concrete launching pad The hu-man-Tiands that fashioned it that still control it through the thick Instrument cable strand running up its side into the electronic maze within are safely behind 14-inch thick steel-reinforced concrete In the blockhouse they can see the rocket through periscope ports slitted in the concrete But the blockhouse men like the men at central control have other things to watch They are huddled in groups in front of control panels dials meters gauges radar scopes At X-mmus-ten-mlnute9 lights on instrument consoles begin winking red beacon on telemeter on gas pressure up minitrack on cutoff OK gyros erect invertors and dy-namotors check If all is well each tuatUr0 AUTOjVlATIC ELECT BASEBOARD HEAT OddNames Are Used By VN Soldiers JACKSONTMichTMarch 2 (INS) One of the nations most unusual newspapers is the weekly Spectator published at Jackson State Prison in Michigan The editor is Don Lowry a 42-year-old Canadian who formerly wrote bum checks and his assistant is a tough robber once known as the terror of downriver Detroit The newspaper recently won an Award as the nations leading prison weekly Lowrys associate editor is Gene Hobart who staged daring robberies in the metropolitan Detroit area The paper has a circulation of 10000 including thousands of outsiders who subscribe to the weekly to keep track of husbands or sons now paying debts to society Lowry who learned to write while in prison has done such an outstanding Job that he has te-ceived offers from newspapers and magazines when he is available Lowrys record has been so good at Jackson that Warden William Brannan has put his name before the parole board for consideration If Hobart should succeed Lowry as editor the Job may not be open again for a long time hes serving a life sentence While most papers have wire services to keep them informed editors of the Spectator must rely on the legendary grapevine A DEAD RINGER PATERSON (At All his friends had but onA thought when they heard Hollywood was looking for a double for Jack Dempsey Babe Sanzari A1 Sanzarls phone was ringing four hours after it was announced on a television program that Hollywood wanted some one who looked like the former heavyweight king to play him in a film biography Sanzari 28 and 190 pounds has been mistaken for Dempsey several times Hollywood might have its work cut out if Sanzarls signed however Hes never acted and hes never fought a round in his life Put your heat where you need it most between you end the weather at floor level Be warm from head to toe anywhere In the room APPROVED By EDWIN DIAMOND INS Science Writer An electronic computing machine named Maniac has been taught to play beginners chess on its own and cabably enough to give its human opponents a good tussle In three matches promoted by a team of top mathematical physicists at Los Alamos scientific laboratory Maniac first played a practice game with Itself and then took on a Princeton professor The electronic computer favorably handicapped almost earned a draw before the Princeton man pulled a mate trap and took Maniacs' queen In its last game Maniac beat a human beginner who had one week's chess experience The games all have a serious scientific purpose While no one will say that machines can really think It is acknowledged that Maniacs chess game represents something akin to human thought As such the man vs Maniac matches are an exciting new approach to one of mankinds most difficult and fundamental questions: What happens in the human brain during thinking or more simply what is the process we call thought? At present brain researchers know that the sense organs in the eye ear nose and skin send information to the brain via streams of nerve impulses These impulses are like electrical currents They serve to activate appropriate nerve cells which in turn send electric-like Impulses to the neurone circuits But how does the brain convert these impulses into thought? Dr Wilder Penfield director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and one of the worlds truly great brain authorities confesses that science Just doesn't know He suggests new approaches are needed The chess-playing maniac may be such an approach Chess is the" brainiest of all games Maniac is the electronic computer whose calculations helped demonstrate the feasibility of the hydrogen bomb Maniac can add subtract multiply and divide It can perform such decisions as whether a given cumber is larger smaller or equal to a second given number Its electronic elements behave in much the same manner as the bodys nerve centers do in the transmission of electric impulses Dr Stan Ulam Los Alamos mathematical physicist chess player and one of maniacs managers wanted to see what he could learn about chess computers and the human brain by bringing all three together He and his colleagues taught maniac chess based on two general principles of play (known to the chess player as the principle of material advantage and the principle of superior mobility) A set of coded instructions enabling maniac to play chess using Just these two principles was fed into the machine The board cho sen foi maniacs game was pared from the standard 64 squares to 36 squares Maniac was able to plan ahead four moves two by each player thanks to the Instructions Before It made a move it was able to weigh all legally allowed move sequences or chains and finally select the one chain that squared best with its two principles of play According to Dr Ulam the matches revealed several amusing features Among them: At the turning point of its game with Prof Martin Kruskal of Princeton described as a strong player mamac in eminently human fashion deliberated 20 minutes before giving up its queen In its third game against a human beginning in which the machine was victorious maniac handled the final attack most ITS AN EXCELLENT IDEA FOR YOUR SUNDAY DINING PLEASURE! 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