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...selection used consists of picking a page in a book at random and then using the last digit of the number as a means of determining who will receive polls.--If the digit is three, every third man is chosen.--"A public opinion expert helped us with this and with the construction of the poll itself," Cole asserted...
Square Dealer. California's Friden Calculating Machine Co. has developed a mechanical calculator which, for the first time, can do such tricks as extracting the square root of a ten-digit number in nine seconds without the help of printed tables. The machine (about the size of a large typewriter) will lop many man-hours off complicated calculations needed for guided missiles, gun sights, aircraft, etc. Price: about...
Food for Thought. In Chicago, Mrs. Josephine De Franza sued her husband for divorce, charging that he 1) forced their eight-year-old son to tackle multiplication problems involving ten-digit numbers, 2) twisted her arm when she tried to help the boy, 3) pounded the child's knuckles for wrong answers, 4) rewarded correct answers with raw meat on the theory that it improved the brain...
...Willoughby's intelligence system "is nothing short of miraculous . . . On Dec. 26 he . . . said the Communists had 444,406 troops actually in Korea, of which 277,173 were Chinese and 167,233 North Koreans. I have never seen a wartime report of enemy strength . . . meticulous to the nearest digit...
...digit was broken when Clasby grabbed the nose-guard of a Brown back. His hand caught in the frame and the bone fractured. The injury was not apparent from the stands; Clasby passed with great effectiveness throughout the whole fourth quarter. He completed seven of ten passes for 85 yards and one touchdown. In addition, he ran for a touchdown himself...