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...Newark College of Engineering, which is a center for studies of extrasensory perception, conducted a test of 67 high executives, mostly corporate presidents. He asked them to choose any number from zero to 9. They had to make the choice 100 different times, always picking a one-digit number. When the executives had finished their part of the experiment, an IBM computer, which was programmed to operate at random, also selected 100 numbers...
...Columbia, thanks to Don Jackson, may score more against Dartmouth than any other Ivy team has this year-Harvard holds the record of 14. Of course, Bob Blackman won't be holding back either; he wants that Lambert Trophy and the right to demand from the alumni a three-digit scoreboard for next year. The Indians...
Such double-digit scores tell a great deal about the 1970 season so far. The Giants' pitching staff, which has a horrendous 5.74 earned-run average, is not the only one ducking line drives. The Mets' Jerry Koosman, who compiled a brilliant 17-9 record for the world champions last season, has won only two of nine starts. Fastballer Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals is struggling to improve a sub-par 4-3 record...
...leisurely sip on their Scotch-and-waters, the Band vehemently eggs the Harvard charges onward with traditional cheers like "Shove that Ball" and "E to the x! dy! dx!/E to the y! dy!/cosine, secant, tangent, sine/three point one four one five nine/come on Harvard, give 'em the digit!" The latter cheer is called "Engineers...
Chatting with a neighbor recently, a Melbourne, Australia, carpenter named Terry Cooke confided that he was one digit away from the winning number in a $28,000 lottery. "I don't know whether I'm lucky or unlucky," he said. At the time the remark mystified the neighbor. Last week, after police swarmed into the neighborhood in search of Cooke, he understood. Cooke, actually Ronald Arthur Biggs, 39, was the only man still free of the 15 who halted a Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail train in 1963 and looted it of $7,300,000. Caught and sentenced...