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...police stations by radicals, white or black, have already become a big-city fact of life. Violence is unpredictable: Chicago's blacks did not revolt when police killed Black Panther Fred Hampton, but a minor grocery-store dispute set off last week's Miami rioting. A random incident can either pass almost unnoticed or set off a riot that endures for days...
...three-month-old regime of Premier Lon Nol was faced with the fight of its life. Daily strikes by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops throughout the country could no longer be considered just random harassment designed to wear out Cambodia's army. Instead, the Communists seemed to have embarked upon a new all-out strategy designed to strangle Phnom-Penh. Diplomats in Cambodia speculated that the Communists had decided to try to overthrow the Lon Nol government as quickly as possible -probably within six months...
Suds and Punch. At random, Chien split his subjects into four groups of ten each. Three groups spent an hour each weekday afternoon for nine weeks in the makeshift tavern. The members of one group were given 12 ounces of beer each; those of the second, a glass of nonalcoholic fruit punch; the third, fruit punch containing a dose of thioridazine, a psychotropic (mind-affecting) drug for the treatment of senility. Members of the fourth group, which was established as a control, stayed in the ward and got their usual dose of thioridazine straight...
...last seen 30 years ago this summer, when Winston Churchill's R.A.F. "few" fought off the Nazis in the Battle of Britain. In the Israelis' case, the few are chosen with painstaking care. Air Force Commander Mordechai Hod, 44, once said that if he picked 300 youths at random from a Tel Aviv street, no more than one would qualify for pilot training. Those who make it are rarely the hard-drinking, fast-living flyboys of fiction. TIME Correspondent John Shaw, visiting one base, described them as members of "an orange-juice air force that seldom drinks except when occasions...
Disadvantaged Minority. Miss Cadwell had a research group choose 607 women at random and ask one question: "What TV advertisement can you recall that you find particularly demeaning or objectionable?" Most-resented ads were for Right Guard deodorant, Axion presoak and Ultra Brite toothpaste. Right Guard's commercials show two families sharing the same medicine cabinet, and that, as Miss Cadwell sees it, belittles family life and offends women in their roles as wives and mothers. Women resent Arthur Godfrey's pitch for Axion, she believes, because it talks down to them. As for Ultra Brite...