Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soccer game. For the first time in his life, three weeks ago he took a 140 flutter. It brought him a $1.40 windfall, so he decided to use some of his winnings to try again. After all, he had a foolproof system: Maude called out numbers at random for him as he filled in the betting coupon...
...Columbus campus of Ohio State University, which will enroll more than 35,000 students this fall, a random selection of about 200 freshmen in the College of Arts and Sciences will be housed in two dormitories (separated by sex), attend English, history and arts courses together. All the freshmen at Stanford will attend English and history courses with students from their own residential units...
...change. The 275-member house of delegates very nearly denounced a key provision of the Johnson Administration's pending civil rights bill, which would desegregate Southern federal juries by ending the "key man" system of prominent citizens recommending veniremen. Instead, all U.S. federal jurors would be selected at random from voter-registration lists. In a dramatic appearance, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach delivered an impassioned defense of the bill and cried: "I can't live with the present system!" Impressed, the house of delegates decided to go along by a vote...
Happily for literature, not all the new U.S. novelists are attempting to renovate the novel. Many make admirable use of the established forms. Appearance of a Man (Random House) by George Backer, 63, an ex-publisher of the New York Post who inherited a real estate fortune and has served as a political adviser to Averell Harriman, elucidates the psychology of power in an intelligent tale about a character admittedly modeled on the late James Forrestal. All the Little Heroes (Bobbs-Merrill) by Herbert Wilner, 40, describes with tender humor and felicity how in the last ten days...
Marbury contended that the proposal to select Federal jurors at random from voter registration lists rather than relying on prominent citizens to recommend them--as is now done--would lower the standards for jurors...