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...trip had all the trappings of a state visit, all the secrecy of a Communist plot. At Pnompenh airport, Ambassador Abramov and Chinese Communist Ambassador Wang Yu-ping huddled about the ramp of the twin-engined Ilyushin-14 warned that the plane would have to fly "very high" and be blacked out. Reason: "U.S. jets" might try to shoot it down. At Hanoi that night. North Viet Nam Premier Pham Van Dong turned out at the runway with a cluster of pretty little girls bearing flowers, then drove Prince Souvanna off to the state guesthouse in a long cortege...
Probability and Statistics also provides interesting listening for students not seeking credits. Early morning viewers are greeted by tin soldiers, stuffed toys, building blocks, electric trains, ping pong balls and pizza pies, which Mosteller uses to illustrate the principles of probability...
...submariner's book, the South Americans learned the newest ship-maneuvering techniques, how to handle the most modern MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detector) and sonar gear to track, corner and kill the sub. Sonar operators even learned how to tell the type of sub by the quality of its "ping...
Dudley House, opened for the first time for Summer School students, offer luncheon facilities, locker space, and the TV-equipped common room. Added tidbits include billiards, chess, checkers, and ping-pong. Monday through Friday from...
Critique of Reason. Frankfurter has a deserved reputation as a wicked verbal antagonist. Asked his opinion of a grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson who was serving as Governor General of the Philippines, Frankfurter snapped: "I think Emerson passed through him without stop ping." In crossing blades with Alice Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, Frankfurter said she had all her father's biases. "Why shouldn't I?" Alice Longworth replied. "Your father's a great man and entitled to biases," said Frankfurter...