Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your main article under "The Nation" in the Dec. 19 issue has left me quite appalled. You note random thoughts of the President-elect in regard to the mistakes made by his predecessors. I feel that I as the daughter of Mr. William H. Woodin must go to bat for a great American who gave his life for his country and now cannot speak for himself. The events and history of the late 1920s and of the early 1930s prove, I am sure, the worthiness of the former Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin. Furthermore, Mr. Roosevelt had known...
...from cold hydrogen throughout space. Purcell explains that if intelligent aliens send messages to the earth, they will use a sort of reversed cipher that is deliberately made easy to translate. Their first problem will be to select the proper radio frequency: there is no use picking one at random. Unless listening earthlings know how to tune their receivers, they will hear nothing. Therefore, says Purcell, the aliens will select the 21-cm. waves, which are the sharpest and most universal radio waves that flash through space. The aliens will reason that if earthlings are bright enough to have...
...blue-eyed, freckle-faced doll that talks, made by Mattel. When a string on Cathy's back is pulled, she can say "Will you play with me? "Tell me a story," "PIease brush my hair," "I love you," or any of eleven different sentences in random sequence. List price...
...four London general hospitals. Dr. Dalton questioned 84 female accident victims (age range: 15 to 55), all of whom had normal, 28-day menstrual cycles. Her findings: 52% of the accidents occurred to women who were within four days, either way, of the beginning of menstruation. On a purely random basis, the rate would have been only 28.5% for the same eight days. Childless women, noted Dr. Dalton, appear to be abnormally accident-prone just before menstruation, while women who have borne children are vulnerable over the whole premenstrual and menstrual period...
SERMONS AND SODA-WATER (3 vols., totaling 328 pp.)-John O'Hara-Random House...