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...Numbers Game is a parimutuel system. Payoff on the randomly-selected winning number varies inversely with the number of bettors who select that number. Gamblers may play various number combinations in three- and four-digit games...
...majority of tickets are sold beforehand through a subscription series, in which patrons select at the beginning of the season seven events out of the offerings. The remaining tickets are sold at box offices immediately before the event. Thus, a group such as the Guarneri String Quartet is already sold out, although the performance date is March 1977. But Pierce says, "Some events really surprise me--for example Segovia never sells well in subscription, but does at the box office. Fortunately, Boston is a city most major artists want to play, and I can afford to turn down artists' agents...
...illustration at random: the patriarch devises a system for beating the weekly lottery. His scheme to fulfill this child-like desire is a transparent cheat any kid could see through. Three blindfolded children select numbered balls from three bags. The patriarch invariably holds the number they choose. (The correct balls are frozen, so the children can feel which ones to pick...
Eight sophomores from South House and four from Currier House will be reassigned to fill the vacancies. The Quad Houses will select the sophomores to be transferred...
...refused to comment on particular characteristics of the approximately ten candidates he is still considering and also declined to say whether or not he will select a new dean from the Harvard Medical School faculty...