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The following article is intended to alert readers of the New Outlook to research which is intended to implement an idea originally suggested in conjunction with mobility device research for the blind at Haskins Laboratories in 1944. While the author is concentrating on the maximum transmission of information, Professor Robert Gibson at the Carnegie Institute of Technology is moving rapidly ahead with research in pain-free stimulation and special compact equipment which could be used with a mobility device, or with a reading machine for blind and deaf-blind people.

Over 50 people attended this seminar, organised by the Department of Natural Sciences of U.N.E.S.C.O., including 32 specialists from 22 African university institutions. Documents had previously been submitted by each participating country, summarising the following data on science faculties: numbers of lecturers and students, capacity of departments, facilities for teaching and research, and development plans. The working languages were English and French; simultaneous interpretation was provided. The seminar was conducted mainly in plenary sessions; papers written mostly by U.N.E.S.C.O. consultants served as bases for discussing the teaching of specific subjects (mathematics, physics, geology, chemistry, and biology), the emphasis throughout being on first-year university work. More general topics included co-operation between university and government, and between African countries in science teaching.

"July 29, 1954." ; "Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations." ; Caption title. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Luis de Lucena (1465-1530) was a Spanish writer whose Repeticion de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez con 101 Juegos de Partidois the oldest surviving book on the game of chess. Jacob Ornstein provides an annotated introduction in two parts that gives a general overview of the text and its author, and discusses the work in relation to the Feminist debates

For many years the descendants of John and James Mellor -- a large family who have made contributions to the cultural and educational activities of their various communities -- have been desirous of preserving for their posterity, and others, a record of the Mellors. Several years ago Amy Mellor Howe initiated the project by compiling and editing the first Mellor History. The foreword in her book wherein she ".hoped that the information and data herein contained may form the nucleus for further research." served as the incentive to continue the project. It is planned to incorporate the following biography into one of the section of the book The Mellors Through the Years which this author has consented to compile and edit for the family. In this biography will be presented the highlights in the life of James Mellor: his youth and early married life in England, his sharing in the experiences of the "ill-fated" handcart pioneers, and his coping with the problems involved in subduing a primitive frontier in settling the Mormon community of Fayette, Sanpete County, Utah. This study has been based on excerpts from James Mellor's own diary and on the diaries of other members of his family; on old letters, documents, and other unpublished information; on newspaper clippings; on personal interviews, letters which the author has received, and available community, church, and government records. It is hoped that this evaluation will result in an objective biography of James Mellor that is as accurate as available information permits. Some previously published historical information has been inter-woven with the original diary of James Mellor in order to enhance both the interest and the authenticity of this document. Grateful appreciation is hereby acknowledged for invaluable assistance rendered by Roy Delbert Mellor, president of the Mellor family organization; his wife, Vivian Margaret Anderson Mellor; and to Martha Wintach Bartholomew, Fayette historian, in the compilation of extensive information and illustrations used in writing this thesis. Likewise, the author wishes to express appreciation to numerous other writers whose statements have been cited in this work, and to Ronald B. Jensen, business instructor at Manti high School, for assisting with the enormous task of typing this information. The author also desires to express sincere thanks to Professor J. Lynn Mortensen, members of her graduate committee at Utah State University, for their invaluable suggestions and professional guidance given in the preparation of this thesis.

Translation of an article by the author in the Polish-language publication Panstwo i prawo (State and law) Warsaw, Nov. 1961, p. 812-818. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Israel's Hebrew-language press is growing in strength, and is diversified and resourceful in its coverage of local and world news. Above all, Israel is building a free press in the Western tradition, according to the author, a student of Israeli attitudes toward the United States.

"Documents admitted in evidence are printed only in their original language." ; Trial against H. W. Göring, R. Hess, J. von Ribbentrop, R. Ley, W. Keitel, E. Kaltenbrunner, A. Rosenberg, H. Frank, W. Frick, J. Streicher, W. Funk, H. Schacht, G. Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, K. Dönitz, E. Raeder, B. von Schirach, F. Sauckel, A. Jodl, M. Bormann, F. von Papen, A. Seyss-Inquart, A. Speer, C. von Neurath, and H. Fritzsche, individually and as members of any groups or organizations to which they belonged. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; v. 1. Official documents.--v. 2-22. Proceedings.--v. 23. Chronological and subject index.--v. 24. Document & name index.--v. 25-42. Documents and other material in evidence. ; Mode of access: Internet.

With the publication in 1926 ofZur Psychologie des Sozialismusthe hitherto obscure Belgian radical Hendrik de Man became a figure of international import in socialist circles. The work, aptly retitled in some later editions as Beyond Marxism, was a categorical and comprehensive challenge to the ideological monopoly that Marxism had long maintained on the dominant forms of the Continental labor and socialist movements. The appearance of the book in German, the author explained, was particularly appropriate in view of the role of that language in the historical development of Marxist theory, as well as because of the critical importance of Germany to the socialist movement. The treatise rapidly received broader circulation by translation into some ten European languages, and enjoyed 14 editions; it provoked the comment of just about every socialist theoretician on the Continent, excited the attention of academics, and made its author the center of violent controversy. If the declarations of Bernard Lavergne and Hermann Keyserling that it was the most important work in socialist theory sinceDas Kapitalcould be dismissed as extravagant and interested, Theodor Heuss' more modest judgment that this was "the weightiest analysis of the Marxist thinker [i.e., Marx] and his effects that up to now has been attempted from the explicitly socialist side" carried telling conviction. The stature of the author was soon confirmed by the awesomely authoritativeArchiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitikthrough the appearance in its pages of de Man's reviews of the newest publications concerned with the problems of the worker in industrial society, and there was even an abortive attempt made on the part of fellow-thinkers to launch a periodical with de Man as editor-in-chief.

Some current scientific interests—game theory, computers, social invention—may hear echoes from the beginning of recorded time in Dr. Stecchini's preliminary inquiry into the origins of the alphabet. Some unheralded Sumerian grammarian probably devised a primitive alphabet as a divining, abacus-like instrument formed in a sixteen- letter square, as reconstructed in the cover drawing. Its purpose was to allow divine voices to "speak" in the language of the land. The author resides at Princeton, N.J., where he is completing his work on the HISTORY OF MEASURE. A further article on his findings will appear in the March issue of ABS.

Rezension: This monograph is an extremely well written dissertation on the reactions of the human mechanism to the stresses engendered by war or other disasters. In lucid, forceful language, the author delineates his pictures of a society under stress and then proceeds to an explanation of the emotional forces at work during these troubled times. Of particular note is a section on terror in which the author describes the progress of emotional reaction from fear to terror and cites several documented reactions in a specific situation. The concluding chapters of the book are concerned with a discussion of psychological first aid and a method for increasing the capacity of the individual for psychological resistance to the emotional onslaught created by disaster. Although this work offers little that is new to the catalogue of human reaction to disaster, it is highly recommended reading for those individuals seeking an answer to the problems.

The IPI study which appeared on January 16 reported that press censorship was on the rise, even in free countries. On the other hand, the Soviet Union appeared to be easing up on censorship according to the New York Times. Moscow News, a Soviet publication in the English language, resumed publication after six years on January 7. La Prensa reappeared in Buenos Aires on February 3 with a new face—a front page of news instead of the former gray front page of classified ads. The first day 840,000 copies were run off. Other Latin American news was the lifting of press censorship in Brazil by newly-inaugurated President Kubischek, and the worsening heavy-handed suppression of opposition newspapers in Colombia by Dictator Rojas Pinilla. In Hungary, AP correspondent Endre Marton, a Hungarian national, and his wife, a UP correspondent, were sentenced to imprisonment for spying. Mrs. Marton has since been released. History was made in Chinese journalism when Communist Chinese newspapers began printing from left to right, horizontally at the beginning of this year. In Britain, the world-renowned journalist and author, a former editor of The Times, Henry Wickham Steed, died on January 13 at the age of 84.

The Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration held its fifth session at Geneva from April 16 to 24, 1953. Representatives were present from 21 of the 22 member governments, and several non-member governments and agencies sent observers. The subcommittee on finances reported that gross income had amounted to $26,114,357 in 1952, and gross expenditures totaled $19,446,549, leaving a budgetary surplus of $6,667,808. Reimbursements for movements completed in 1952 had been "most satisfying", but it was anticipated that a slower rate of reimbursement would prevail in 1953, and that additional funds would therefore be required. The subcommittee also re-ported that between February 1, 1952, and December 21, 1952, 77,626 persons, among them 31,226 refugees, had been moved from Europe. The Director, Mr. Hugh Gibson, reported the following developments in the activities of ICEM: 1) provision had been made for training building laborers in Italy destined to migrate to Brazil (in collaboration with the Brazilian and Italian governments and the International Labor Organization), and for a number of preselection projects; 2) in Greece, in collaboration with UNESCO, a language training program for prospective migrants to Australia had been initiated; 3) Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Venezuela were making "definite progress" in the area of land resettlement; and 4) other projects of a "technical nature" were being considered. The fifth session also studied a draft constitution for the Committee which had been prepared by the Director at the request of the fourth session. The delegates concluded that eventual acceptance of the constitution by member governments would give the Committee "more stability and an anticipated life span of from three to five years", and decided to refer the draft agreement to governments for comment before the next session of ICEM.

The tragedy of anthrop is that cultures & peoples in various parts of the world have been disappearing & are continuing to do so before they have been adequately studied. The losses suffered by anthrop'ts in the 19th & 20th cent's can be illustrated by the failure to obtain a thorough account of the culture of the Kafirs of Kafiristan, of the Toala of southern Celebes, & of the inhabitants of Easter Island. The situation is even more threatening today. Knowledge of many cultures is essential to the testing of hypo's & the development of anthrop'al theories. Further, knowledge about some previously unknown tribe may lead res on to a hitherto unsuspected track (new information concerning 3 apparently insignif tribes will have a radical effect on our views of the racial history of Southern Asia). The comments about res on tribes & cultures apply with equal urgency to languages. Anthrop'ts have not reduced the amount of orthodox ethnographic res because of a lack of objectives; in fact, the number of insufficiently known extant cultures is immense, particularly in South East Asia. The reason lies in the fact that our interests are influenced by current fashions & because res grants are more available for work in a community & in other areas which have immediate relevance to applied anthrop. Perhaps a still more crucial factor retarding the investigation of disappearing cultures is the lack of coordination & information on urgently needed projects. A committee was elected at the 4th International Congress of Anthrop'al & Ethnological Sci's (Vienna, 1952) to attempt to correct this situation. The author was appointed its secretary-general. B. J. Keeley.