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...newspapers. By any reckoning, the 1968 campaign sets an alltime record for verbiage. Small wonder that with so much talk flooding the ether, the words sometimes get mixed up and Candidate A sounds like his opponent Candidate B, and Candidate C sounds like both. As proof of the theorem, here is a simple test: Match the candidates and their words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who Said That? | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...this: where the "holes" are more in number the faces are lighter. Accordingly, the center of gravity favors the 1-2-3 faces, and the faces 6-5-4, which are just opposite, come up. The potential energy of a system tends toward least. Physics or no physics, the theorem holds for your wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 10, 1967 | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...integration makes a mess of both races. Archie Ferris expresses liberal sentiments toward the blacks; in practice, his enlightened principles are expressed by going on a three-day drunk with his ex-servant, who rides off with a hangover -and the chandelier. Thus Novelist Mclntosh points up his pessimistic theorem about the future of Africa. The blacks will inherit nothing of value from association with the whites, who will themselves be corrupted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Colonial Ritual | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...homiletic, catechetical and religious in tone (the promise of an unprecedented revelation to the merely human race has the strangest effect on the nonbeliever). At any rate, the mixture of science and religion is curious, as if Billy Sunday had undertaken a sermon on the subject of the binomial theorem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heavenly Bogeys | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...theories of economics. In 1938, while a Junior Fellow, Samuelson published "Revealed Preference," a paper which analyzes consumption solely in terms of market data and not in terms of utility, as in the past. He also developed a "Synthesis of the Multiplier and the Accelerator" and the Stopler-Samuelson Theorem of international trade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Samuelson Will Study Here | 2/11/1965 | See Source »

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