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...Inexact & Erratic. The Gallup Poll, oldest of the national polls, reported that L.B.J.'s "popularity has risen from his October low" and that 48% of the people now approve of him, v. 44% in October. (In New York State, a recent survey by Pollster John Kraft showed that more New Yorkers said they liked Johnson (66%) than said they liked Bobby Kennedy (56%). That was news calculated to help the President recuperate, but the pollsters did not stop there. Pollster Lou Harris weighed in with quite a contrary finding: "Confidence in the overall job the President is doing...
...football is not exactly an inexact science. Every pass that Baltimore's Johnny Unitas throws is sure to be a perfect spiral, and everybody knows who is going to carry the ball when the Green Bay Packers need a yard or two: Jimmy Taylor, of course. Each team employs the same basic formations and the same plays. "Execution" is everything. Watching the pros play ball is like watching a diamond cutter at work...
...those winnings is a flat 10% plus expenses, it is no wonder that Neloy is no longer Eddie Neloy, Esq., but Eddie Neloy, Inc. A World War II machine gunner who lost the sight of his right eye at Anzio, he moodily insists that "training is an inexact science"-but since 1945, when he saddled his first winner, Neloy has won 700-odd races and 17 of his horses have won more than $100,000 in a single year. Before he signed on with the Phippses last November, Eddie worked mostly as a "public" trainer for as many...
Four into Three. No matter how well taught, medicine remains an inexact science. "You will find it difficult," University of Rochester Physiologist Dr. William D. Lotspeich tells his students, "to exist in a state of not knowing-but you must get used to it. You will, unhappily, often have to make decisions on the basis of incomplete information...
...budget is by far the most comprehensive one that any government in the world has ever known. But it is necessarily inexact, since it is a sweeping forecast made in January of what the world will be like in the fiscal year that begins in July and ends 18 months after the budget is presented. Is the new budget sound or foolhardy? In the view of many economists, it is apt to aggravate inflation by pumping more money into the economy than it takes out at a time when production is running so high that shortages of manpower, material...