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Word: randomness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...postmistress, who figures briefly in his story. "Just like a flash of lightning, he was here, there, everywhere." The result of all Capote's footwork is a report, "In Cold Blood," now being serialized by The New Yorker. In January, it will be published in book form by Random House. Either way, it fulfills the novelist's ambition: it turns a routine police-beat job into a stunning study of the criminal mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: In a Novel Way | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...Marks the Spot. The techniques of "prestrike" and "reconnaissance by fire" worry Westmoreland most. A pre-strike by artillery or air is often essential to weaken possible V.C. resistance in areas where helicopters are about to land a load of troops. But its random nature makes it dangerous near villages. Artillery is especially feared-and hated-by villagers. Most peasants have long since built bomb shelters near their huts, and the sound of approaching bombers or helicopters provides time for civilians to scramble into them. But an artillery shell's whine gives warning only when it is too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Limit on War | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...very nature of air reconnaissance by fire suggests a civilian hazard in built-up areas. By stitching a few random bullets through the underbrush, armed choppers hope to draw fire that will reveal a Viet Cong position. It often works; but now and then the bullets hit buffaloes, houses-or people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Limit on War | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...AMERICANS: THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE by Daniel J. Boorstin. 517 pages. Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Growth of Identity | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

Several months ago, when I last reviewed Mosaic, there was really no magazine to review. A near-random collection of unrelated articles, poems, tomes, and stories, the issue was nothing more than the arithmetic sum of its disparate parts, some interesting, many...

Author: By Curtis Hessler, | Title: MOSAIC | 9/28/1965 | See Source »

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