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...acid. Two weeks ago on radio, he devised a game called Homeowner, in which "one person, designated the homeowner, immediately would be declared the loser, and the rest of the game would be spent determining how much he would lose." When Reasoner called the phone company to complain about digit dialing, the response made him fume: "They've got that defense in depth, whereby the first three people you talk to know only one phrase each, like a chimp trained to press a lever for a banana-flavored pellet...
...Chicago's Negro newspaper, Defender, served as director of the Institute of Jazz Studies in New York, and taught English at the University of Chicago before he joined S.F. State's English department in 1955. He has taken outspoken stands on such diverse issues as all-digit telephone dialing (against), advertising ("venal poetry") and the 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley (against). In a comment that clearly foretold his attitude toward dissenters at S.F. State, Hayakawa castigated Berkeley's promoters of Free Speech. They defy authority, he complained, "yet when punitive action is threatened they holler...
...represented with total accuracy as a sequence of numbers. And since computers can do anything with numbers, they can in principle duplicate not just any sound that the human ear can hear but any sound that can be created. They do it by emitting 20,000 three-digit numbers a second--something no human could ever do--and turning them into an electric wave that can activate a loud-speaker. The computer is a universal instrument limited at present only by humans' knowledge of what numbers will recreate a given sound. As yet the richness of conventional music escapes...
...Presidents of the various universities, find the same name (or the same first name if there's no last name) in any one of the four Boston area telephone books and award the game to the team whose President's name phone number starts with the higher digit. The predicted score then is calculated on an IBM computer in our bathroom...
...barbershop. Indeed, each week as boxers are eliminated in Woroner's alltime tournament, he is besieged with irate letters from fans accusing the computer of taking a dive. If the trend toward computerized sports continues, the day may come when barber-chair sportsmen will be arguing: "Oh yeah? Digit for digit, the NCR 315 can fold, staple and mutilate...