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...earpiece (see cut), promptly lopped off KOHW's "minority programs," e.g., classical and hillbilly music, closed down the station's unprofitable FM outlet. Aiming a barrage of popular music at "the average housewife," Storz soon concocted his first giveaway scheme. The station broadcast a street address at random, paid the occupant of the "Lucky House" up to $500 if he called the station within a minute. Storz copyrighted the idea, now earns $600 a week from other stations that he has licensed to use it. A similar Storz giveaway, in which the station selects prizewinning telephone numbers...
...those involved in the revolution thought Harvard had gone haywire again, and all were most out spoken in saying so. Now, of a random 12 dentists contacted in Boston--seven of them graduates of the defunct Dental School--only one would go on record with his opinion. The rest refused to be quoted by name, not because they were any less opposed to Harvard, but because they were afraid that, from the way things are progressing, they just might be wrong...
...swelling numbers, U.S. artists are fanning out to carry American theater, painting, literature to the rest of the world. Late, but far from least, in the parade are U.S. musicians. A random look at the travel notes last week showed U.S. jazz in London, a fine U.S. symphony in Latin America, a top U.S. violinist in Russia, U.S. "bop" in the Middle East...
...Automata Studies, Dr. Ashby explains how an intelligence amplifier might be constructed. "It has often been remarked," he says, "that any random sequence, if long enough, will contain all the answers." So a machine for solving problems too complex for the human brain should contain a mechanism that presents for consideration all the possible solutions. The machine's job will be to select the right one when it comes along...
SAVROLA (241 pp.) - Winston S. Churchill-Random House...