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...land. Despite these setbacks, the fedayeen have been able to step up their operations to as many as two dozen a day. Though El Fatah hotly rejects being called terroristic, it has also turned increasingly to attacking Israel's civilian population. The methods are brutal and indiscriminate, random terrorism for terrorism's sake without any military value -a bomb in a crowded cinema, a grenade thrown in a schoolyard, a mine planted for anyone who comes along. Last week a 17-year-old Los Angeles girl, Sari Roberta, who had gone to Israel to serve as a volunteer...
Translucent Togas. Once past the entry hall, patrons are politely requested to remove their shoes. They are escorted up a ramp into the cavernous main studio, to confront a brain-boggling scene. Dimly distinguishable in the half-light, two dozen or more toga-clad figures are arranged in random fashion around 14 raised platforms, lushly carpeted and joined together by a narrow walkway. Ghostly music emanates from unseen speakers; colored lights flicker over the ceiling and walls. New arrivals are led to platforms, helped into their own translucent togas and encouraged to doff as many of their clothes as they...
There are approximately 200 public and private polling organizations in the United States today; and most of the reputable ones have similar methods for conducting their surveys. The Gallup poll uses 300 sample precincts throughout the nation. These are chosen at random with the stipulation that the number in cities, towns, and rural areas be proportionate to the percentage of the population living in such areas. A Gallup interviewer, usually a housewife working part-time, is assigned to each precinct and told to start at a specific, randomly selected household and move from house to house until she has five...
...seems to be the order of the season. Many are bought at the Frankfurt Book Fair from enterprising European publishers and imported wholesale. Several contain perfunctory yet prolix texts by scholars who take the money but regard the work as intellectual slumming; and the pictures are stuck in at random like plums in a Christmas pudding. Each year, though, a few more big books show encouraging signs of aim and editing. Still others are notable for size, subject matter, outrageous pricing and, occasionally, sheer beauty. Among the selections listed below, hard-driven Christmas-gift seekers will even find a handful...
...WORLD OF CURRIER & IVES by Roy King and Burke Davis. 140 pages. Random House...