Word: randomized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three years began to lift, revealing shiny new buildings, glistening overhead superhighways and a network of fine, wide roads that is already speeding up traffic considerably. Four superexpressways slash like sword scars through 62 miles of the once impenetrable capital, while 25 miles of new subway bore beneath the random, rickety scab of slums, pachinko parlors and noodle shops that is home to most of the city's population...
...INFINITY OF MIRRORS by Richard Condon. 333 pages. Random House...
...pick up one of Anthony Powell's novels at random is as bewildering an experience as walking into a theater halfway through Henry IV, Part II. Who is Hugo Warminster? Why does Dicky Unfraville despise Buster Foxe? What ever became of Eleanor Walpole-Wilson and her Lesbian roommate...
Anti-coddlers roast juvenile courts by reciting the statistic that persons under 25 now account for one-third of all city arrests for serious crimes. In a random poll of visitors to the New York World's Fair, the Daily News asked, "Should juvenile offenders involved in serious crimes be shielded from publicity?" The poll standing last week: Yes, 8,063; No, 13,459. Such reaction is fueled by the action of a New York City juvenile court last month after two juveniles drenched a six-year-old boy in lighter fluid and set him afire for "kicks...
Each electronic learner had daily half-hour sessions in an isolation booth outfitted with one of the devices. First he was allowed to noodle on the keyboard, pressing keys at random; each time he hit a key, the corresponding letter materialized two ways: typed jumbo-size on the paper in the machine and spoken by a recorded voice. After two or three sessions, the recorded voice began to assume more authority: instead of repeating letters as they were struck, it started to dictate them to the pupil. All keys on the typewriter locked except for the demanded letter...