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Others were more methodical: they would patiently sort out the letters in alphabetical order: A-A-A-C-H-I-L-N-P (which doesn't make much sense). Then they would start working with combinations and permutations, and with any luck they might make it in an hour or...
Still others hit the history angle, and would work from the clues. They took the attitude--encouraged by the Trib--that Tangle Towns was essentially an educational game, and would pick up an interesting and useful bit of information about each alphabetical mess they had deciphered. And others would work...
THE CIVIL WAR DICTIONARY, by Mark M. Boatner III (974 pp.; Mckay; $15), suggests that arguments about the Civil War may never cease but that a lot of them are going to be settled by this book. Lieut. Colonel Boatner, onetime instructor of military history at West Point, has arranged...
PR: Proportional Representation, the Cambridge method of voting for Council and School Committee. A single ballot lists the names of all candidates in alphabetical order (there are no primary elections) and without regard to party affiliation or other endorsement. The voter marks his first choice with a 1, second choice...
At their meeting this week, the Masters decided that those who could not be accommodated in the Quincy dining room would be assigned to the other seven Houses. Conway said that it had not been decided what principle of distribution will be used in determining which students will eat in...