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...panel members emphasized that the risk of contracting an AIDS infection from donor blood is quite remote. "You have a greater chance of dying from the anesthesia," noted Dr. Richard Aster of the Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin. Stanford University Statistician Lincoln Moses estimated that about 120 AIDS-infected samples slip into the blood supply each year, out of a total of 12 million units donated. Since each pint donated can be split among two or three recipients, as many as 360 people could receive AIDS-infected blood each year, though how many will develop the disease is unknown...
...former President, father-in-law of a former statistician for the + Washington Senators, a former team, was appointed the arbitrator last week in the matter of the overextended playoffs. The league championship series were more than the umpires had bargained for. Nixon played football at Whittier College, but he has been around the language of hardball most of his life. "That was not my ball park. That was their ball park," Team Player John Mitchell once replied when asked about secret campaign funds. "In this Cabinet," Nixon observed, "you win some and you lose some." And some are rained...
...discovered "there's only so much fishing a man can do." With $12,500, which this industry calls a pittance, he bought a Buckpasser grandson, and converted his cattle ranch to a horse farm. Not so long ago, Trainer Cam Gambolati was a Laundromat operator and a statistician on a Tampa Bay Buccaneers football team that won as few as no games a year...
...Crimson Coach Bill Cleary... With five major penaltie, the penalty-minute total for Saturday's game was 61, edging our Friday's 58, for a two-game series total of 119... Bright did not sell out either night, drawing 2650 (200 short of capacity) on Saturday... Apologies to statistician Ted Cadwell, whose name was misspelled in Monday's Crimson...
Elsewhere in the Sunbelt, farm woes have cast a cloud over otherwise sunny economies. In Georgia, some 60% of the loans issued by the Farmers Home Administration are delinquent. "We're not out of the woods yet," warns Larry Snipes, a statistician for the Georgia Crop Reporting Service. "In fact, I'm not even sure that we've seen the worst." In Texas, farmers went out of business last year at a rate of more than 100 a week. State officials see an equally bleak...