Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the G-man boom is The FBI Story (Random House; $4.95), by Pulitzer Prizewinner Don Whitehead, a 20-year A.P. veteran now Washington bureau chief for the New York Herald Tribune. No mere puff job, Whitehead's book is a searching, definitive history and, though done with FBI cooperation, takes a well-balanced view of the bureau. To the surprise of Author Whitehead, Random House and newspaper editors, the book turned out to be a runaway bestseller, sold 150,000 copies in five weeks (initial print order: 35,000); last week the publishers planned to print another...
What makes the murals especially significant is that they seem to have been copied from, or at least inspired by, illustrations. The scenes pictured were not chosen at random from the whole Bible, but illustrate individual books, carefully following the text from beginning to end, thus strongly indicating an accompanying text. And this is particularly surprising, because the Jews had rigid prohibitions against pictorial representations of Scripture. Archaeologist Kraeling's explanation: during the period of close contact between Judaism and the Hellenic world, the Jews must have translated their sacred literature into Greek "to bring the contents...
...program sponsored by the Morris Gray Poetry Fund, Frost spoke at random about conversation ("My education") and metaphors ("My kind of foolin'"), and what science attempts to prove ("How she differs from what she's like...
Fiber optics might even be applied to code work. If a quarter of a million fibers are woven at random into a bundle so that its two ends are not identical, the image which passes in one end will be hopelessly scrambled when it emerges. The only way to unscramble it is to feed it back the way it came through an identical bundle. Since it is possible to produce two identical random bundles by winding the fibers on a drum and cutting the coil in half, the receiver could be equipped with a "decoding" bundle. Linked into a television...
...astronomer who wants to catch radio waves from space demands a quiet place for his radio telescope. In most locations, "random noise" from all kinds of electrical appliances interferes with or drowns out the ghostly spatial chirpings. Last week, after a one-year search, the National Science Foundation announced happily that it had awarded a contract to Associated Universities, Inc. for the construction of the nation's largest radio telescope in what proves to be the quietest town in the eastern U.S.-little (pop. 100) Green Bank, W. Va., 50 miles northeast of White Sulphur Springs...