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...physics-or by quantum mechanics, in which atoms and subatomic particles behave both like bits of matter and like light waves. Once the answer is known, scientists should be able to calculate precise chemical reaction rates and the amount of energy needed to cause ,them, taking most of the guesswork out of laboratory and industrial chemistry...
...such questions were answered satisfyingly in William Mulvihill's novel. Here they are spelled out according to the conventions of steam-heated movie melodrama, but the film still turns the guesswork into good grim fun. Competition within the group begins in earnest after they find refuge in a hillside cave. While a herd of baboons observes the vagaries of humankind, the six rapidly dwindle. The hardy pilot (Nigel Davenport) sets off to seek help. An old German (Harry Andrews) and a professorial type (Theodore Bikel) are eliminated one way or another by the fittest male, Stuart Whitman...
Although any estimate of the amount that the HSA charges for administrative expenses must be guesswork, the most informed guesses put the figure at a level far above what IATA considers acceptable. Where does the money go? If the HSA is using charter flight receipts to subsidized unprofitable agencies, it is not only violating another IATA rule, but it is abusing the monopoly position that Harvard has given...
Just as there is a certain element of conspiracy in the attempts of inter national speculators to bring down a whole nation's monetary structure, strong elements of secrecy and suspense go into the efforts to foil them. By sheer guesswork, the U.S. and British bankers set the size of the rescue needed by Britain at a record $3 billion, not count ing the $1 billion already available through the International Monetary Fund. The U.S. agreed to put up $1 billion of the amount - and to ask ten nations to put up the other $2 billion...
...limited, and their number varies from state to state. In federal courts they range from three for each side in civil cases to 20 in a capital case. Conscientious lawyers exercise their right to disqualify a juror with the precision of a surgeon, the intuition of an actor, the guesswork of a tea-leaf reader. Professor Harry Kalven Jr., director of an extensive University of Chicago jury study, confirms the belief of most prosecutors and defense attorneys that persons on the lower rungs of the economic and social ladder tend to be more sympathetic to the accused. The well...