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...Surrender. Before long Mike had split the Oregon Democratic Party, had demoralized operations at the Multnomah County Courthouse, had gotten involved in bitter feuds with the county commissioners and the Civil Service Commission. But Portland was sure that Mike was cooked at last. By last weekend 29,000 of 30,000 signatures necessary for a recall election had been gathered...
Until now, he added, little has been done with discriminate functions when it is desired to split the population into three or four parts. The lack of progress is mainly due to the very heavy computational work that would be associated with proper formulation of such a problem. As modern computing machinery becomes available to scientists, Mosteller stated, they will no longer be so reluctant to formulate problems which require heavy computation...
...City in New York. This notice badly frightened those who have been looking to Satchmo' to stifle the moans and yelps of the musical fringe that is bop; but the fright passed as Armstrong stuck to his two-beat last and gave no ground to the banana-split-and-beret coterie that haunts the "bars" in bop halls. It would seem that there are still people who prefer the easy phrases of Dixieland to the jolts and bumps of the new form...
...split between workers as party members and workers as union members was not allowed to break up the Bridlington show; conflicts were carefully covered up in compromise resolutions. Explained one delegate: "Barkis isn't always willing, but he usually has to say he is." So, with their eyes on the approaching general elections, the delegates grudgingly gave the government its way on every important question...
...takes a better paying job with a machine-tool company, where he buries his ethics and tries to wiggle into a managerial position. But Erik's big pitch is a big flop; his employer outmaneuvers him. So he signs up with the Government as a research physicist, helps split the atom and make the bomb possible. In postwar Washington (and still panting after the big money 5, he is about to team up with malefactors of great wealth who want to kidnap atomic energy for private profit. But a Congressman's rabble-rousing speech sickens him, sends...