Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missiles). But the future of strategic deterrence clearly belongs to two solid-fuel missiles: the Navy's submarine-carried Polaris, and the Air Force's Minuteman, which can be fired from concrete "silos" buried in the ground, eventually will also be carried on special trains roaming at random through the U.S. and perhaps non-Communist Europe. Kennedy's bill will spend $1.8 billion to double the yearly production of Polaris subs from five to ten, put 29 into the water by 1964, instead of by 1967 as scheduled by Eisenhower. In all, the present bill will...
...science that makes modern medi cine more expensive but a better buy, with far more certain diagnoses, routine complex surgery, and virtually sure cures for many ailments. This represents a remarkable change. Harvard's late Professor Lawrence J. Henderson noted that not until 50 years ago did a random patient taking a random disease to a random doctor have better than a fifty-fifty chance of "benefiting from the encounter...
...advertising ("The Royalty of Television Sets"), the reputation is deserved-though Zenith does not get into the really expensive custom field. Every sixth worker on the Zenith production line is a quality inspector, and TV sets that have already been cleared for shipment are pulled back at random for further testing. Six years ago, when most other makers of TV sets began switching heavily to printed circuits, which were cheaper to make but difficult to repair, Zenith stayed with easier-to-fix hand-wired circuitry. In gratitude, thousands of TV repairmen became enthusiastic pushers of Zenith products...
...Governor Williams learned little from his grand tour is evident in a brief article in Cambridge 38's special edition on Africa. Williams relies on the sonorous, empty phrases of officialdom--"African countries need economic assistance designed to meet national objectives and to create national stability"--to convey his random impressions of the continent...
...month an additional 25,000 troops are expected from Portugal. In the meantime, the frightened authorities have supplied guns to civilians, who sometimes take justice into their own hands. In Luanda, civilian vigilantes raided São Paolo suburb to hunt for "suspected arms," shot down 33 Africans at random. A government spokesman later reported the raid proudly. Fortnight ago in Luanda, a country coffee planter spotted two Africans he believed had been with a rebel band that burned his plantation. He led a pick-up mob of whites down Luanda's main street. The mob literally tore...