Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Work Is Fun. "Sometimes," says Houghton, "we start out with one objective and end up with something 180° in the other direction." Fifteen years ago, random research at Corning led to a photosensitive glass. Then, imprinting images with ultraviolet rays and heat, Corning tried to market the glass as decorative wall panels. The effort flopped, but curious scientists found that intricate images could be easily etched on the new glass with acid. Now it serves in miniaturized printed circuits for missile systems. With such attention to the laboratory, Corning has built a file of 100,000 different formulas...
...House. Washington's welfare payments have bloated from $9,500,000 to $21,300,000 in the past seven years, and Byrd wanted to find out why. In random sampling, investigators discovered that many families on relief had one TV set and that several had two. At one appliance store at least four persons on relief were buying expensive stereophonic phonograph sets on time. Of the cases reviewed, investigators found that 78% of the persons on general relief were really ineligible for aid, as were 57% of the mothers receiving checks for dependent children. Some case studies: A mother...
...PETTY DEMON (355 pp.)-Fyodor Sologub-Random House...
MAINSIDE (373 pp.)-Paul Mandel- Random House...
...PANAMA PORTRAIT (242 pp.)- Stanley Ellin-Random House...