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...item on gambling [Oct. 27] invites my observation: in throwing dice, the faces with more than three points come up, on the average, a bit more often than can be expected statistically. The physics of this: where the "holes" are more in number the faces are lighter. Accordingly, the center of gravity favors the 1-2-3 faces, and the faces 6-5-4, which are just opposite, come up. The potential energy of a system tends toward least. Physics or no physics, the theorem holds for your wallet...
...fictions that everybody knows are fictions. Personally I am very unhappy about the arbitrary and capricious incidence of the punishments, because I think that certain groups of undergraduates have been forced to carry an unfair share of the penalties. On the other hand, the punishments themselves are vary much lighter than I had anticipated up until the very last moment. Furthermore, appeal procedures exist that may be able to correct manifest injustices. Thought the character of the punishment is indeed important, it is even more important to try to perceive and assess the situation in which we all find ourselves...
Like Any Other Shop. Distillers credit women with increased sales of vodka, rum, aperitifs, bottled cocktails and cocktail mixes. Even the trend to lighter Scotches is due partly to surveys showing that women think pale Scotch has a "nice" color. "Women walk into a liquor store today like any other shop," says Seagram's Tabbat, but they want the stores neat and convenient, and package-goods stores have spruced up as a result. Some distillers think drinking women have even increased male moderation. A man who might tipple too much alone or with other men tends to drink sensibly...
Suntanned and Negro skins tended to absorb more heat energy because of their darker hues, and are more severely damaged and scarred over larger areas than lighter skins. Even when treating lighter skins, the researchers found, it is best to apply titanium dioxide ointment; the white ointment protects untattooed skin from damage...
...They have this rolling sound, this wave that just engulfs the audience like a wall of sound that you can get into any way you want to. There is a distinct Los Angeles sound. The Byrds, Love, Seeds, Springfield. They're a little more melodic, you know, a little lighter. But I think our down thing is in between. We've played at San Francisco, they've like us; we've played here, New York, many places, you know, and everywhere we've played...