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...blewski believes, may signal their onset by changes in the enzyme system before any other symptoms appear. This has already proved valuable in early detection of hepatitis, and Dr. Wróblewski has evidence of it in mouse leukemia. If the phenomenon is confirmed in human leukemia, it would mean that more effective treatment of this and perhaps other malignant diseases could begin sooner...
This did not mean that these were the ten best shows on TV; indeed, they were by no means a roster of merit. It simply meant that, by one of the systems in TV's way of counting the house, they drew the biggest audiences. By this alone, rating systems such as the Nielsen work the most ruthless tyranny in a nervous industry that looks to its audience for leadership instead of providing its own. As big-time TV enters its second decade, the ratings are more powerful, feared, hated-and needed-than ever before. The sponsor has always...
While the averages are useful tools to Wall Street's professionals, they can mislead amateur investors into buying or selling at the wrong time. Many investors seldom bother to learn how the averages are compiled; nor are they aware of what they really mean. Investors, for example, often talk of a "$6 rise" on the Dow-Jones industrial average. Actually, the Dow-Jones is not a dollar average at all, but a point average. Dow statisticians calculate it by totaling the per-share value of 30 prime industrial stocks (among them: Du Pont, General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel...
...What we need is an understanding that no member of NATO will take action on its own, in any part of the world, which affects other members of the alliance without consulting them. Consultation, of course, does not mean obligation to agree. But it does mean taking seriously what your friends say: it does mean making an effort to get agreement...
...unofficial statements, Lloyd Jordan has been accused by members of the Faculty Committee on Athletics of "poor teaching." If any place needs good teaching, all surely agree, it is a university community. But what, in terms of Harvard football, is "good teaching"? If it means that Jordan was not a good moral leader, or his attitude toward emphasis of the game was not attuned to that of the College, it should say so. By buying off Jordan at $25,000, the Corporation is making football seem like a very important activity in Harvard life. Does the Committee's accusation reflect...