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...irreverent study of the numbers game called How to Lie with Statistics, Author Darrell Huff coined the word "statisticulation"-the art of lying with statistics while seeming objective. One trade that statisticulates regularly is advertising. A nostrum for piles or pyorrhea is endorsed by eight cut of ten physicians because the ad agency has tirelessly spent time and money assembling panel after panel until it finds one that shows an eight-out-of-ten result...
...huff, they flew back to Saigon and held a press conference. There they blamed the mix-up on their military rivals, Chief of State General Nguyen Van Thieu and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, who, they said, were sabotaging the campaign...
...certainly wasn't the first big fish that Corrine Huff, 26, ever caught, but it was the first blue marlin to fall for her hook, line and sinker. The former Ohio beauty queen, now chief secretary and consoler of Harlem's self-exiled Congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, entered the annual blue-marlin tournament in Bimini, first day out aboard Adam's Fancy made all the muscular males seasick by delicately hauling in a huge, 459-lb. blue. That was enough to win Corrine the tourney right there, but to make everyone more jealous she boated...
...Middle East has undergone so many Arab-Israeli alarums since Israel became a state 19 years ago that even the antagonists often find it difficult to take one another seriously. They huff and they puff, they bluster and threaten, they move troops around like toy soldiers, but-with the single tragic exception of the war over Suez in 1956 -their bravado has rarely amounted to more than local skirmishes. Last week the area once more seemed on the brink of disaster-and this time the huffing and puffing was more serious. In the closest that Israel and the Arab countries...
...serious matter when the San Francisco Symphony learned recently that its stellar tuba player, Ronald Bishop, had been lured away by the Cleveland Orchestra. In its search for a replacement, the San Francisco Symphony rejected all the local candidates. That sent the Musicians' Union into a huff, and the orchestra had to take the union to court before it could carry its talent hunt outside the city. Last week San Francisco finally filled the job-just like a baseball team. It hired Cleveland's F. Chester Roberts...