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...idea caught on: perhaps Israel might get a second president as big as the first. Quipped a government statistician: "He might even be able to work out the mathematics of our economy and make sense out of it." To peppery Premier David Ben-Gurion, who loves learning and knows, moreover, the value of an imposing name, the idea sounded fine. While Israel's President has only small powers at home, abroad he could be an important symbol of a struggling new state which needs both aid and sympathy. Characteristically, without bothering to consult either his cabinet or party...
...Penalty Is Death. The man who passed most of the ammunition to the doctors was Louis I. Dublin, no physician but a Ph.D. and top statistician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., who has been charting the lives and deaths of his fellow men for 40 years. Dr. Dublin and his assistants told visiting physicians (many of whom were toting too much weight around) what they have learned about health and disease in overweight subjects, and passed out sets of colored charts as reminders. The chief findings...
This week, with the publication of a new book called They Went to College (Harcourt, Brace; $4), U.S. readers could find out. The book is the product of a five-year study, made by TIME, of 9,064 representative graduates. A Columbia University statistician, Patricia Salter West, analyzed the survey, and LIFE Editor Ernest Havemann translated the statistics into eminently readable English. The result: as complete a portrait of the Old Grad as has ever been published...
...number of veterans in the University, getting G.I. Bill aid, has been slashed to a half of what it was last year, a University Veterans' Office report revealed Wednesday. The report was drawn up by William D. McDowall, a statistician in the office, for the use of the Bursar's Office and other University departments...
Leaving the realm of fancy for a moment let us take a look at the facts. In October, 1928, some obscure statistician, hard at work under a green eye-shade in a dusty room, came up with a monumental discovery. Fifty-three per cent of all marrying Radcliffe girls had Harvard men for husbands! The CRIMSON could do nothing but make a grimace that would pass for a smile, and the day after the discovery, it stated CRIMSON policy on Radcliffe in an editorial, called "The Mating Call...