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...limestone Washington, D.C. headquarters alone, N.E.A. has a staff of 560 running 31 different departments that delve into every aspect of education. Supported mostly by annual dues (now $5), it has grown far beyond its original role as the champion of the schoolteacher. It has become education's statistician, policeman and lobbyist...
Died. Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey, 62, zoologist, statistician, and top-ranking authority on gall wasps, whose team in 1948 turned out the bestseller Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, later (1953) scored again with the companion volume Sexual Behavior in the Human Female; of a heart ailment and pneumonia: in Bloomington, Ind. (see MEDICINE...
...process of breeding and feeding beef for profit has bred a lot of romance out of the cattle business. The closer the industry gets to its golden calf, the further it gets from its rootin', tootin' golden past. The cattleman has become a statistician, geneticist, chemist, endoctrinologist, pharmacologist, and market specialist...
Florida, as any poolside statistician will confirm, is worth more every minute. Its present boom, five years old and picking up speed by the month, is no crazy-house of lot options. Governor Roy Collins says: "Florida stands on three sturdy legs. Tourism. Industry. Agriculture. The ultimate potential of all three has hardly been sighted, but all three must grow and thrive together, or none can survive." The common denominator of the three is the equable and reliable Florida sun, a priceless asset in a nation whose countless blessings do not, in its more populous regions, include a kindly climate...
...Statistician Hammond hopefully answered his own question: "One-third of all those who die of cancer could be saved by methods known to us now." If this is accomplished in the next ten years and lung cancer is controlled, only 173,000 will die in 1965. But, said Hammond, there is a big if: these lives can be saved only if physicians apply present knowledge with maximum effectiveness. And what doctors can do depends basically on what cancer victims do-how soon they go for examinations when they have suspicious symptoms, how soon they have an operation after...