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It is bigger, more brilliant, jampacked with virtuosity, and more outrageous than ever before. No fewer than 65 countries, ranging from Trinidad-Tobago to the Soviet Union, sent 4,132 works of art. The U.S.'s lavish convocation of nearly 20 popartists' work, called "Environment U.S.A.," was selected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Shape for the Future | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

Four-Time Winner. Bob Stanfield, 53, a lawyer by training, comes from a rich old Nova Scotia family that made its fortune in knitting mills; winter long Johns, one of its products, were known during the Yukon gold rush as "Stanfield's unshrinkables." An unassuming pragmatist, he took over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: A Pragmatist for the Tories | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

Several speakers dwelt on the cost of "unwanted-pregnancy disease." In physical terms, Johns Hopkins Pediatrician Robert E. Cooke, himself the father of a handicapped child, said it will be "many, many years before we have the medical means to repair genetic defects in the womb." In terms of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gynecology: Disease of Unwanted Pregnancy | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

There is an air of certainty about the decimal point or the fractionalized percentage-even in areas where the measurement is statistically absurd or the data basically unknowable. A classic example is a survey made some years ago, which solemnly reported that 331% of all the coeds at Johns Hopkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE SCIENCE & SNARES OF STATISTICS | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

True enough. Johns Hopkins had only three women students at the time, and one of them married a faculty member. The American Medical Association announces not that very few people dream in color, but that "only 5% of Americans" dream in color. New York City has 8,000,000 rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE SCIENCE & SNARES OF STATISTICS | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

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