Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit by Eleanor Roosevelt to Moscow's Butyrki Prison, just after the war. Inmates are washed in "Lilac Fairy" soap, offered wigs to cover their shaved heads. Their cells are temporarily transformed into elegant salons with foreign magazines on their coffee tables. When Mrs. Roosevelt picks out at random a man and asks what he is being punished for, the prison governor replies that he was a Gestapo agent who burned down a Russian village, raped Russian girls and murdered innumerable Russian babies. "Wasn't he sentenced to be hanged?" exclaims Eleanor. "No," is the straight-faced reply. "We hope...
...court system moved to take jury duty out of the hands of the privileged few. The courts were obeying the Federal Jury Selection Act passed by Congress last March, which called on U.S. District Courts to submit sweeping changes by Sept. 23. The new rules provide a method of random selection from lists of registered voters, guarantee that jurors will be chosen from each county in proportion to its population. In the South, where many thousands of Negroes have registered in recent years, there will now be a vastly increased chance for them to serve on federal juries...
OUTER DARK, by Cormac McCarthy. 242 pages. Random House...
...Random Grading...
...their students. At yesterday's opening, Michael H. Schwartz, a teaching fellow in Social Relations and a course organizer, said that most section-men will refuse to do the grading themselves. He mentioned the possibility of utilizing a "nonsense" grading system. This would involve determining grades in some random manner, such as by lot, completely unrelated to the quality of course work...