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...removal of a major planet from a solar system. Nothing will be the same for any of us, near or far, from now on. There is no disguising that the death of Robert Sherwood is a heavy misfortune for us and for our times. We wish the dice could have fallen the other way. It was a better world when we had him with...
...drabs, teens and touts that comes to a climax in a hilarious antiphony of horse-players as they peruse what Runyon called "the morning bladder." In fact, from first to last-and the last dance is a thrilling choreography, set in a picturesque sewer, of the primordial rite of dice-Michael Kidd has staged his ballets even more effectively than he did on Broadway. Frank Loesser's lyrics are classy, too, whether his music is or not, and Director Joseph Mankiewicz has often made the most of a very good Broadway book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows...
...with man's mental limitations, insist that he has a whole set of hidden abilities that have long been ignored. In one such school are University of London Mathematician S. G. Soal and Duke University Psychologist Dr. Joseph B. Rhine, who term themselves parapsychologists.* They use sets of dice and packs of cards bearing numbers, letters or symbols, say that certain subjects can guess card identities or control the roll of dice beyond mathematical probability-even from a great distance. Their explanation: there exists in the human makeup a mysterious force called psi (from the Greek letter ψ) which...
...Dice in the Cosmos. Einstein was convinced that the cosmos is an orderly, continuous unity: gravity and electro-magnetism must, therefore, have a common source. He was in a minority, for Planck's famed Quantum Theory, which Einstein himself did so much to develop, and which many modern scientists accept, suggests that the physical universe is made up of small particles (quanta) that are governed not by some orderly causality but by chance...
...Einstein persisted: "I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos." He set himself to find a new synthesis, which he called the Unified Field Theory. He wanted to unify the field of gravitation with the field of electromagnetism, and thus resolve every cosmic motion into a single set of laws. On three occasions Einstein felt sure he was on the point of grasping the "final truth." But he had to admit last year that he had "not yet found a practical way to confront the theory with experimental evidence," the crucial test for any theory...