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...bustling statistician, Bernard Goldstein, offered 300 Ibs. of data and what the Congressmen clearly considered some unnecessarily fast talk to show "the universe, the population, the very census" of songs played on Clark's American Bandstand TV show. "Let the chips fall where they may," said Goldstein, seeking to prove with a blizzard of figures, algebraic formulae and four charts that could have been rainfall maps of the Pentagon that Clark had jockeyed his own songs and those in which he had no financial interest with fine impartiality. But the chips, obviously, had fallen into Clark's pockets...
...industry's official statistician, R. L. Polk & Co., last week totted up the final figures for calendar 1959. Total new car registrations: 6,026,500 cars, for the third best year on record, topped only by 1955 (7,169,908) and 1950 (6,326,438). The top five...
...research analysts and printing presses gobbles up limitless funds -with no fun to show for it. The life cycle of a bureau is ruled by one law: "It spends and therefore is." In one of the skits with which Author Parkinson enlivens his chronicle, he pictures a breathless female statistician rushing in to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture's office, bearing one of the thousands of pamphlets the Government publishes each year...
When President Pusey awarded Kuznets an honorary Doctor of Science degree at Commencement he described him as "a scientist-statistician who with patient skill measures the ups and downs in our economy." Kuznets was Frank W. Taussig Professor of Economics here last year...
...statistician has informed me that we will have to substitute a Democrat for this Republican to even the score. I hereby nominate Lucius Wormwood, Boston County dogcatcher, whose slogan smacks of Harvard: 'Elect Wormwood, or Boston will go to the dogs...