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...added numbers at the rate of 10,000 per second. It finished twelve-digit problems in multiplication (e.g., 428,945,437,246 times 342,873,937,895) in one thousandth of a second. It did complex problems that required it to "remember" elaborate sets of instructions. It "generated" 352 random numbers and manipulated them in the subtle ways that delight mathematicians. One endurance test, involving floods of figures, took twelve hours. Every 45 seconds, ORDVAC reported smugly that progress was being made...
...from the beginning, Frankenstein stated, in determining how to get an accurate cross-section of students. They were undecided whether it was better to get all 300 testees from one house, or several from all the houses. The latter plan was chosen and every fourth junior was selected. This random method of selection will give the most accurate cross-section...
...Model and the Marriage Broker (20th Century-Fox) defaults on a promising idea: a down-to-earth professional matchmaker, played by tart Thelma Ritter, at large among the lonelyhearts. Random glimmers of a good spoof on courtship and marriage mores get lost in an overplotted movie that strains for pathos when it is not straining for laughs...
Promptly at 2:15, William Primrose, a tall, austere-looking man, and conductor Ernest Ansermet entered; the random noises from the orchestra ceased and the spectators took their seats...
...Three years ago, Guston turned his back on easy success, joined the abstractionist ranks. His latest exhibition in a Manhattan gallery features huge canvases thinly blotched with pale colors, and greyish ribbons of paint trailing, snail-like, over slush-hued backgrounds. His sketch for the exhibition catalogue, an apparently random doodle of short, jerky dashes, is a fair sample of the new Guston. His reason for the change: "I was unhappy...