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...Times and for years its linguistic policeman, was trying to think of the term for a sentence or word that reads the same both backward and forward, as in "Madam, I'm Adam." It came to him the next morning (palindrome), and with it the inspiration for this book-a reverse dictionary that alphabetically lists an array of meanings and then retrieves the word that has momentarily disappeared into the outer fog banks of the brain...
...apocalyptic vision, vigorously denies that any typographical errors crept into the published results. He adds: "Every single conclusion that we reported has no relationship to the error purported by Boyle." But Boyle points out that his computer runs all check out in other respects with the projections in the book-a good indication, he feels, that the program he used was the same as the one on which the book was based. Beyond this, Boyle shares the view of many computer experts that so many factors are involved in mathematical modeling on a global scale that even the best computer...
MOST of the book-a collection of revised essays which originally appeared in the New York Review of Books -is an incredibly telling documentation of American activities in Vietnam's neighboring countries during the past decade. The most astounding of these discussions concerns America's role in the Laotian guerrilla war. Those bombers which were pulled out of North Vietnam in 1968 and not used in the South were instead sent to Laos, where massive depopulation bombing had begun even before the fabricated Tonkin Gulf episode in August 1964. As Chomsky tells it, most of northern Laos...
...television ogre, learned the first rule of his trade. All stories must answer the questions: "Who? What? When? Where?" God, who by his very nature is indefinable and omnipresent (he either has done everything or nothing), is obviously an impossible subject for such questions. Yet Muggeridge's new book-a compilation of interviews and essays-boldly deals with the deity. Is it news when newspaperman bites...
...Hour Shifts. On July 3, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, which embraces half the U.S.'s. 14,500 controllers and hires Lawyer-Pilot F. Lee Bailey as general counsel, announced that it would start playing everything by the book-a set of rules that controllers often ignore. By spacing planes four miles apart instead of the usual three, the controllers managed to slow traffic by 30%. Because private planes use up only half a runway, controllers usually allow them to land simultaneously with a jet on intersecting runways, a practice forbidden by the FAA. The old rule went...