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...group of M.I.T. students, after analyzing the results of the recent national draft lottery, have claimed that the drawing was not random and impartial...
...What is unusual, however," Kunin said, "is that the six months with averages above the expected mean were the last six months of the year." The probability of such a non-random cluster, he said, was about...
...Gary Hinman on July 25, and those of Mr. and Mrs. Leno LaBianca on Aug. 10. Hinman was allegedly murdered because he would not turn over $20,000 that Manson thought he had. Miss Atkins and another Manson follower are charged in that murder. The LaBiancas were picked at random from among the affluent, she said, the night after the Tate murders, just to prove that the killers had not lost their nerve. The Tate victims did not even know Manson. They died, she said, because Manson, an aspiring songwriter, nursed a grudge against Doris Day's son, Terry...
AUDUBON: A VISION by Robert Penn Warren. 32 pages. Random House...
...wary of regular "discussions," which encourage the very bad habit of talking when there is nothing worth saying. Prolonged discussion risks incestuousness; intermittent discussion fueled by random input from the bibliographic environment offers a greater possibility of genuine insight. Also, perhaps a more interesting relationship between teacher and student...