Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serious bidder for the book, described Martha enthusiastically: "Here was this woman, dismissed as a crazy blonde with good legs by those burly Nixon locker-room boys, and by God, she was telling the truth!" Meanwhile, former Vice President Spiro Agnew was encountering resistance in the literary world. Random House turned down his prospective novel: a whodunit about a U.S. Vice President who is manipulated by Chinese Communists...
...operation is divided into three distinct parts-a sociological "profile" of the community, in-court scrutiny of potential jurors, and field investigation of their backgrounds. Preparation for the Wounded Knee trial began three months ago. Thirty volunteers spent five weeks conducting phone interviews with 576 people chosen at random from voter lists. The questions probed for signs of prejudice by asking about attitudes toward business, public personalities, police and, of course, Indians...
Homilies like these, delivered by two little-known Manhattan psychoanalysts, fill a 54-page book that is selling at the rate of 10,000 a week. How to Be Your Own Best Friend (Random House; $4.95) is indeed heralded by some of its 250,000 readers as this year's Jonathan Livingston Seagull, promising yet another flight to happiness...
...Martin Gardner in the pages of Scientific American, Life is a kind of solitaire played by one person on a checkerboard or graph paper, or indeed any gridlike field that contains adjoining squares of equal size. The playing pieces, or counters, are chips (any number) that are placed at random on squares across the board. They are then manipulated by what Conway calls his three "genetic laws"-for birth, death and survival. Under the Law of Birth, each empty square adjoined by three-no more, no fewer-counters on neighboring squares will yield a new counter in the next move...
Though Life is rewarding enough when played manually, it takes on an added dimension when played on the computer, which causes the varied patterns to unfold much more rapidly. The computer can either place the counters at random or follow the operator's placement instructions. Readily programmed to obey Life's rules, it can then perform the necessary calculations in a flash and display the changing patterns on a cathode ray tube, providing a remarkable kaleidoscopic show. Sometimes the counters quickly settle into what Conway calls "still lifes" - stable, unchanging figures, including those known in the game...