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...Died. Dr. Harold Fred Dorn, 56, statistician of the U.S. National Institutes of Health whose 1958 study of 198,926 service veterans showed an increase among smokers in the number of deaths due to lung cancer (six times as many deaths for all smokers, nine times as many for cigarette smokers), and led to the U.S. Public Health Service's acknowledgement in 1959 that cigarettes were a cause of cancer; of cancer of the kidney; in Bethesda...
...Physicians already familiar with tobacco's implication in the growing incidence of lung cancer were startled to hear that they had been worrying about one of the least of tobacco-caused troubles. Lung cancer brought on by cigarette smoking, reported the American Cancer Society's chief research statistician. Dr. Edward Cuyler Hammond, is "relatively unimportant'' compared with the damage tobacco does in a variety of other ways...
...others: VA Pathologist Oscar Auerbach, Columbia University Surgical Pathologist Arthur Purely Stout, and American Cancer Society Statistician Lawrence Garfinkel...
When Labor Department Statistician Ewan Clague offhandedly remarked last week that the economy may well spin into a recession next year, he was simply echoing what has become everyday talk in the U.S. business community. Businessmen are well aware that no one has yet repealed the economic cycle. Few seem to question that there will be another recession of some sort, though they disagree over its intensity, and wonder when it will come...
...chasing organizational scheme works only because the same men are on each board. Although Unilever Ltd. Chairman George Cole, 55, and Unilever N.V. Chairman Frederik Jan Tempel, 61, run the company from adjoining offices. Cole-a husky. low-key executive who started out as a $4.20-a-week junior statistician with United Africa 38 years ago-is popularly considered...