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The Confidential Guide attempts to sample all members of the courses it lists; actual return on the polls runs about 30 to 50 percent. The comparison with national public opinion polling seems hardly valid: in such surveys, a small error can cause a faulty prediction; the Confidential Guide makes no...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Questions Confy Guide | 9/26/1950 | See Source »

Prediction & Reaction. According to Dr. Sheldon, a blend of "morphs" himself, people's temperaments are apt to fit their physiques.* Endomorphs are likely to be amiable and slow; mesomorphs, vigorous and aggressive; ectomorphs, inhibited and cautious. Further, he has found his types particularly susceptible to certain diseases, e.g., mesomorphs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Revolt at Washington | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

For July and August, the first two months of the fiscal year, Treasury receipts were 7% higher than the same period last year and expenditures were 26% less. At this rate, Treasury's income at year's end would amount to some $39.6 billion v. the President'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Headed for the Black? | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

"The war depends on the gasoline engine," said Joseph Stalin in 1941. "The country with the biggest output in engines will be the ultimate victor." It was no comfort to ex-Ally Stalin last week that Frederick Brant Rentschler, who did as much as any man to make that prediction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Heart of the Matter | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

That seemed a conservative prediction, if the big builders like Levitt could keep on thinking up new mass-production tricks, and small merchant builders could adapt more of them to their operations, thus broadening the market for small, cheap houses. By stabilizing the construction industry, builders could offer more permanent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Up from the Potato Fields | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

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