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Sullivan and Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci exhorted the police chief to assign more men to the Harvard Square area. Vellucci had asked Brennan about a month ago--in an order passed by the council--to establish a special narcotics squad, but Brennan replied yesterday that "special members of the Crime Prevention Bureau" were adequate...
Most important of all is to cultivate the right people. The rule of thumb, Smith suggests, is to assign each individual a numerical value-a member of the old aristocracy ten points, any millionaire eight, a corporation lawyer six, an obscure artist two, a clerk 0, a factory worker minus one, a Japanese (except in California) minus three-then allot each a proportionate amount of attention. Add to this a "respectful, alert, eager to learn and anxious to serve" demeanor toward ecclesiastical superiors, and eventually someone will tell the powers that be, "Jim Goodfellow is the man you are looking...
...there could be two couples as distinctive as the Collinses in San Pedro in a yellow car. To "refine the jurors' thinking," Sinetar then explained how mathematicians calculate the probability that a whole set of possibilities will occur at once. Take three abstract possibilities (A, B, C), and assign to each a hypothetical probability factor. A, for example, may have a probability of 1 out of 3; B, 1 out of 10; C, 1 out of 100. The odds against A, B and C occurring together are the product of their total probabilities...
...biggest failing of the standard version of continual creation, says McCrea, is that almost no matter has been found between the galaxies. According to the theory, there should be 100 times as much in intergalactic space as in galaxies themselves. But it was always rather silly, McCrea thinks, to assign to space, which is the absence of matter, the ability to create tangible things such as hydrogen atoms. He bases his own theory on the principle that "continual creation of new matter is a property of existing matter depending upon its physical state...
Yale uses a computer to assign freshmen to the upper-class Colleges, permitting the preference of neither students or Masters to figure in the final decision...