Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satellite, contributed to the Gemini flights, is now concentrating on components for the Apollo program. For national defense, the corporation was a major supplier of electronic control equipment used by the Minuteman missile program. It has also branched into new fields, acquiring Hertz Corp. and the publishing firm of Random House...
Morse aso said that the federal government is considering several alternative systems--broadening deferred fields of study, requesting the Selective Service to provide a given ratio of 19-year-olds to older men, or changing statutes to establish a random selection system...
...spectacularly shoddy. Among the most successful were the intricate lens constructions of Mary Bauermeister, the comic-book panels by Chicago's James Nutt, and the reconstruction of a 1964 Happening staged by Allan Kaprow, in which gallerygoers were invited to "make poetry, make news" by stapling random words together on the wall...
...mainly to the converted; it has a way of repeating itself without offering many new ideas. It does bring off a certain humor each issue-a quality that recommends it to readers who are otherwise appalled by its politics. The liveliest section of the magazine, "The Week," consists of random notes, arch and wry, on a variety of consequential and not so consequential topics...
...cent had passed their General Certificate of Education (the British equivalent of a high school diploma) and only 36 per cent had no qualifications. In short, the immigrant labor force, comprised of the more adventuresome and enterprising of the Commonwealth population, is probably better trained than any random group of British or American citizens...