Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many Harvard men will be drafted? Undoubtedly, not as many as in an equal group of men selected at random. Not surprisingly, deferment for educational reasons is strongly condemned by Holmes, who is up in arms about the fact that deferment is granted irrespective of the student's field. However, the alternative is hardly desirable. Should it be up to Selective Service to decide what is a good course to follow? True, engineers may go into a vital defense industry. But what of the English major who goes into teaching? In an all-out war, of course, restrictions on draft...
Over the summer, Stanley H. King, director of the project, and his assistants decided to extend their work to the Class of '65. A quarter of that class, picked at random, will take 12 hours of written tests and questionnaires during the year, covering everything from concrete views on Cliffies to more abstract questions, such...
...result is a series of texts for students and manuals for teachers that Yale University Press publishes at $1.80 per copy, wholesale. Last year 140,000 copies were used in test cities from Seattle to Westport; this year sales will hit 300,000. To spread the word even further, Random House and Yale last week published the first six volumes of a Begle-sparked series of paperbacks ($1.95) called the New Mathematical Library, with such titles as The Lore of Large Numbers and What Is Calculus About...
...Theorizing that musical talent is an inherited trait, famed Italian Otolaryngologist Leopoldo Fiori Ratti gave musical aptitude tests to the parents of the Vatican's Pueri Cantori choirboys and other children picked at random. At the Second International Congress of Human Genetics in Rome last week, he reported that 60% of Pueri Cantori parents had high musical aptitudes (though not necessarily training or interest), while only 20% of other parents showed high scores...
...CHILDREN OF SÁNCHEZ (499 pp.)- Oscar Lewis-Random House...