Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are, in fact, several such planes -adapted models of the familiar Boeing 707 commercial airliner-that spell each other in eight-hour, all-weather shifts. No one plane lands until another has become airborne. Dubbed "Looking Glass," the plane is manned by a crew that flies a random pattern within radar distance of SAC's Omaha headquarters. The SAC general aboard, one of 50 who regularly pull Looking Glass duty, is the AEAO (for Airborne Emergency Actions Officer). He is in charge of a group of officers and technicians maintaining instant communications with Omaha, the White House...
...random telephone poll yesterday of 30 Harvard and Radcliffe students, over forty per cent decided that they have had enough in Vietnam and the United States should pull out completely...
...blackboard with differential equations. During a World War II discussion about the loss to mankind in bomb-gutted libraries, Lonergan argued that the important things were in people's minds, not in books. In answer, someone cited Shakespeare and got out a copy to cite lines at random. In each case, Lonergan identified the quotation, imperturbably reeled off the rest of the passage...
Another unsettling bit of news is that quasars may not be scattered like galaxies-at random around the universe. Instead, the 34 quasars that are now known seem to favor a plane that is tilted slightly away from the plane of the Milky Way galaxy. It is almost unthinkable, however, that the most distant observable objects may have a plan of arrangement. Can the universe itself, the astronomers ask, have a definite shape? Or is the region that they have been in the habit of calling the universe merely a detail of a larger and still unimagined structure? Clearly...
LOVE & REVOLUTION by Max Eastman. 665 pages. Random House...