Word: digitals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...activists at the bottom are unlikely to achieve the miracle reforms that skeptics often demand, and many a Doer crusade is quixotic-witness those largely unsuccessful if unflagging dreamers who battle against highway billboards, jet sonic booms and all-digit telephone dialing. All the same, big social explosions these days are usually caused by a pile-up of many small problems-nearly all of them soluble by small-scale activism. The fact is that democracy needs Doers at every level. How can the U.S. ensure that there are always enough to go around? Does it develop them? The answer...
Using any three-digit number he is certain to succeed with...
...official, who circulated it among civil servants and businessmen. A sort of mini-thesaurus of bafflegab, it consists of a three-column list of 30 overused but appropriately portentous words. Whenever a GS-14 or deputy assistant secretary needs an opaque phrase, he need only think of a three-digit number -any one will do as well as the next-and select the corresponding "buzz words" from the three columns. For example, 257 produces "systematized logistical projection," which has the ring of absolute authority and means absolutely nothing. Broughton's bafflegab guide...