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...Crash, a mere 1,371,920 people were, as the saying went, "playing the market." Most of these were either professional speculators or amateur gamblers who might have done better at the $2 window at the nearest race track. Today, corporate ownership through shareholding is the warp and woof of American life. Some 20,120,000 people (more than half of them women) own stocks in their own right. Another 3,600,000 participate in the market through shares in mutual funds, which themselves own $35 billion worth of common stocks. Millions more are linked to the stock market...
...cracking game of symbolic logic played with 36 lettered dice, which was deviously devised by Yale Law Professor Layman Allen. It is played for its instructional values in junior high schools throughout the U.S. And why not? It's really simple once you know that a WFF (pronounced woof) is a Well Founded Formula and a Proof is, well, a proof. And just in case that isn't clear enough, there are a few written instructions to help out-223 pages of them, to be exact...
...from newsphotos. Last week at Castelli's, Rauschenberg unveiled his latest kick-electronic sculpture. Titled Oracle, it is a series of five disconnected wagons of carefully put together junk, which Rauschenberg thinks of as "a collage out of sound." The connecting links are auditory; four pieces tweet and woof, continuously tuning up and down the AM dial, through their own radio speakers. There is a fifth go-go cart with a control unit for the $6,000 worth of electronic equipment...
...antistatic chemicals on the rug. But the available antistatic sprays, which are similar to preparations for neutralizing phonograph records, are only temporarily effective and tend to leave a tacky residue that makes them get dirty more easily. The third method is to weave copper wires into the warp and woof of the carpet and then ground the whole thing onto a convenient water or radiator pipe. Since this adds about $1 to the cost per yard, it is too expensive for most offices...
...this does not resolve the problem of General Education. Separately, the Western tradition and the teaching of science are very different approaches to General Education. But together they are the warp and woof of a program directed at contemporary Western civilisation...