Word: zeros
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Each panel will meet and vote whether to make further selections by lot, ballot, or another method. Then they will proceed by the chosen method to pick zero, one or two of their num-ber (up to five for the freshmen) to participate in a larger lottery in which the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life will pick four names at random-except that if any freshmen or Cliffies have been sent to the larger lottery there must be one of each among the four. These four will serve...
...Science, E. Douglas Dean presented the results of an unusual experiment. Dean, a research associate at the Newark College of Engineering, which is a center for studies of extrasensory perception, conducted a test of 67 high executives, mostly corporate presidents. He asked them to choose any number from zero to 9. They had to make the choice 100 different times, always picking a one-digit number. When the executives had finished their part of the experiment, an IBM computer, which was programmed to operate at random, also selected 100 numbers...
Despite the remaining element of uncertainty. Cornell must be given a slight edge on Saturday. The fanatical upper-New York State fans that stand in line at four a.m. in sub-zero weather to buy tickets will not be friendly, and there are easier teams to break out of a slump against than Cornell...
...which causes the University Gazette to rhapsodize in its newly purchased subsidiary, the New York Times, that, "despite 23 per cent unemployment and 45 per cent inflation, even though the U. S. birth rate has dropped to zero, though there are still divisive elements in our country which have not been eliminated, the American people have once again risen to the challenges of happiness in this joyous season...
...Zero Population Growth. The angel of popular culture today is to his forebears what the last American buffalo, ailing in some future zoo, will be to the mighty herds that roamed the West: a token, a remnant of a spiritual breed that will never return. In the 13th century, Doctor of the Church Albertus Magnus held that there were nine choirs of angels, "each choir at 6,666 legions, and each legion at 6,666 angels." That made 399,920,004, all fluttering and hymning in orbit around the throne of God. Of these, one-third were flung down with...