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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jury was indeed persuaded, and ultimately convicted the Collinses (TIME, Jan. 8, 1965). Small wonder. With the help of an expert witness from the mathematics department of a nearby college, the prosecutor explained that the probability of a set of events actually occurring is determined by multiplying together the probabilities of each of the events. Using what he considered "conservative" estimates (for example, that the chances of a car's being yellow were 1 in 10, the chances of a couple in a car being interracial 1 in 1,000), the prosecutor multiplied all the factors together and concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decisions: Trial by Mathematics | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...homemade spatzle (noodles), and her idea of an ideal main course is roast duck served with white rice, artichoke bottoms and petits pois with a salad of romaine, watercress and little mandarins. No dieter herself ("If one eats right, one doesn't have to"), she made herself an expert in low-calorie meals. And when Weight Watchers magazine asked for a few samples, she cheerfully agreed. As recipes, they were ordinary. Her "Black Mushroom Soup" is simply five cups of bouillon, 1 Ib. of sliced mushrooms with coarse pepper seasoning simmered for 30 minutes, after which the mushrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Services: Over the Courses with Annemarie | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...letter offered to use students to provide "expert testimony." But Wilcox wrote that since "only a fraction" of the Committee's time is spent on undergraduate affairs, regular undergraduate participation would not be profitable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New HUC Committee Will Explore Role of Students in Policy-Making | 4/23/1968 | See Source »

...probably the only line anywhere whose chief is just that: its chairman, Chief Abdullah Said Fundikira, 47, is a Cambridge-trained agricultural expert, a onetime Justice Minister of Tanganyika and, according to Wanyamwezi tribal lore, the reincarnation of a centuries-old rainmaker. Despite the chief's lineage, skies could hardly be clearer for him and his airline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Flying High Out of Africa | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...first of a number of expert witnesses scheduled to testify in the trial of 32 Avatar salesmen, including seven Harvard students, charged with selling obscene literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Avatar Doesn't Offend, Classicist Tells Court | 4/11/1968 | See Source »

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