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Spanish-born Dr. Marcelino Pascua, WHO's top statistician, had hoped that his report would point a statistical reason for the increase. Other authorities would have been glad to see the question of cancer and cigarette smoking raised to the level of an international debate. But in all Dr. Pascua's mountains of statistics there simply were not enough facts to prove anything positive, because various countries have such widely differing standards of diagnosis and reporting...
...cinema and sent seven times as many children to school within three years after the World Bank financed a small diesel power plant. U.N. experts are ubiquitous in the underdeveloped free lands-a Haitian coffee expert and an Australian lumberjack teaching their trades in Addis Ababa, a Rhodesian statistician in Libya, an Icelandic engineer in Ceylon, a Danish fishing expert multiplying the catch of Chile's fisherfolk by replacing their oars with outboard engines...
...American Cancer Society's Statistician Edward Cuyler Hammond rose at the gavel to explain what kinds of smokers get the most cases of lung cancer, and to discuss whether it does any good to quit. He and Assistant Daniel Horn drew from impressive data: the smoking and life histories of 188,078 men interviewed in 1952, and watched ever since. By the end of last October, 8,105 had died-285 from apparent lung cancer...
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...winner of the 1954 race for the No. 1 spot in the auto industry was Chevrolet. So said R. L. Polk & Co., the industry statistician, last week. In 1954 automobile registrations, Chevrolet led Ford 1,417,453 cars...