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...poker, and after 15 years of study, he evolved mathematical descriptions for the strategical conflict involved. A nonstrategical game (e.g., craps) can be scientifically described in familiar terms of probability. But a strategical game, like poker, where the player has a choice, and where winning or losing may depend on finding out what is in an opponent's mind and concealing what is in one's own, is far more difficult to cope with theoretically. Von Neumann gets at the heart of the strategic conflict through the concept of "Mini-max," the point where the most gain that...
These increasing signs of "normalization" make Western diplomats in Belgrade a little nervous; after all, the U.S. is pouring half a billion dollars in aid into Yugoslavia. But they are only nervous, not alarmed. They don't trust Comrade Tito, but depend on his cold-blooded assessment of his own cold-blooded interest. Necessity made him join with Greece and Turkey in a military pact, which indirectly binds him with the West's NATO alliance...
...Elis' chances depend greatly on how high Captain Eric Seiff can place. In the Elis loss to Fordham last week, Seiff recorded a better time than any varsity runner has posted this year...
...hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate in the fruits of my exertions.' The House Dog replied, 'Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of others...
...Minh's piasters, a printed currency that had no value before Geneva. The Communists arbitrarily based it on the price of rice, 230 piasters for two pounds of grain. But since rice prices fluctuate wildly from area to area and from season to season, the currency would depend on the crop, thus make it impossible for any Northern businessmen to set up a solid business. Imports would be next to impossible to get since few outside businessmen would accept the unstable Red piasters...