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...stanza, Harvard trailed 20-0 and desperately tried to get some back by going to the air. Suffice to say that the most exciting moment of the drive for the Crimson was the announcement in the press box that this was Bob Cavileer's fiftieth year as the Harvard statistician...
...place possessed "absolutely not a trace of local pride." Yet in the 1970s, the Big Apple, as the city now cutely calls itself, has been larding the air waves so much with a treacly, self-addressed valentine of a song ("I love New Yorrrrrrrrrrk!") that even a tone-deaf statistician might wonder how all the fleeing industries and corporate headquarters failed to get the message...
While the economy is dipping into a recession, a much noticed but little recorded sector of American business activity is thriving as never before. It is the underground economy, an illicit system of cash and barter in exchange for goods and services. Because it operates beyond the statistician's reach and the tax collector's grasp, no one knows its exact size and scope. But various learned economists, who find this fast-growing sector to be a fertile field for academic investigation, estimate that it runs to hundreds of billions of dollars a year...
...this gloomy prospect seems less likely. In what is apparently the first such reversal since the Industrial Revolution, the U.S. Census Bureau reported last week, there has been a slight yet important decline in the rate of the world's population growth. Said Samuel Baum, the chief demographic statistician on the project: "This is really a major turning point in world history...
...pressbox perched on top of Harvard Stadium during today's game, you will notice a splay-footed septegenarian promenading up and down the glass booth with a Cheshire Cat grin affixed to his face. This doughty figure is Robert P. Cavileer, who as Harvard's chief football statistician, has been a witness to every Harvard-Yale game since...