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President Reed is the nation's top biostatistician (a word he coined himself). Over the years, he has collected statistics on everything from cows to cars, once helped to plot a logistic curve by which scientists can forecast population trends of any city or country in the world. As director of the School of Hygiene and Public Health, and later as vice president, Reed also proved himself a topnotch administrator. Johns Hopkins now has until 1956 to finish its $5,000,000 building program, and to run along under a man it knows and respects. By then Reed will...
Splintered Rubbish. Next day the weather blew eastward toward New England. The forecast read "severe local thunderstorms" when at Petersham, Mass., in midstate, a funnel-shaped cloud formed over the picnic grounds in the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs State Forest, took off across country toward Rutland. In Holden, a young housewife ran outdoors with her two-week-old son. The baby was torn from her arms and dashed to death on a rubble pile 100 yards away. The tornado reached the northern corner of Worcester, Mass. (pop. 203,486) in the late afternoon, mercifully missed most...
Every day for 25 years Cardano played cards or rolled dice. This did not prevent him from writing 412 different works on a dozen sciences and pseudosciences, and from speculating on such matters as the immortality of the soul and how to forecast the future by a study of warts. ("A woman with a wart upon her left cheek, a little to the left of the dimple, will eventually be poisoned by her husband.") But when the distinguished scholar wrote his Book on Games of Chance, he discussed gambling less as a medical doctor than as one of the most...
When rain was forecast--Harvard's Doctor Wallace Howell was hired to prevent it. After a bitter dispute, Howell, in a Yale Flying Club plane piloted by a Princeton graduate, seeded the skies, and the weekend was ready to start...
Last week the magazine. II Tempo forecast that the coming election will be very close: about 13,500,000 votes for the Christian Democratic coalition, and 12,500,000 for the totalitarian extremes...