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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jurors' minds: the improbability that at any one time there could be two couples as distinctive as the Collinses in San Pedro in a yellow car. To "refine the jurors' thinking," Sinetar then explained how mathematicians calculate the probability that a whole set of possibilities will occur at once. Take three abstract possibilities (A, B, C), and assign to each a hypothetical probability factor. A, for example, may have a probability of 1 out of 3; B, 1 out of 10; C, 1 out of 100. The odds against A, B and C occurring together are the product...
...year's happiest events for the U.S. The consumer has been spending 93? of every dollar that he earns, and is unafraid about borrowing to spend even more. One reason for his continued buoyancy: he has lost almost all fear that a serious downturn will occur. In a nation in which half of the population is under 26, more spending than ever is being done by people who have grown up knowing only the good times of the long postwar upswing. They are unscarred by the 1929 depression and little inclined to worry about another one. In the latest...
...should be operational by 1969, said McNamara, and plans call for ordering 58 of them at an eventual cost of $1 billion. Concluded he: "This will greatly increase our mobility, greatly reduce our reaction time and thereby greatly strengthen our capability to meet crises wherever and whenever they may occur...
...Cohen's explanation is that if a subject takes LSD under laboratory conditions with impersonal attending technicians, if he expects to go temporarily mad and if he gets no reassurance, a psychotic state is likely to occur. But in a more relaxed situation, with hopeful expectations of his own, the subject will probably have a ball. Dr. Cohen notes that this is true of other drugs: "From the same jug of whiskey come tears for one and laughter for another...
...stock market. Since reaching an alltime high of 891 four weeks ago, the Dow-Jones industrial average has retreated 27 points. Depressed by all the talk, as well as by Britain's financial crisis, it fell 6½ points last week. The usual year-end rally could still occur-the market has risen in 50 of the last 67 Decembers-but last week's decline pretty well dashed the hopes of the bulls who had expected it to crack 900 by New Year...