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Automobile sales will rise to 7,000,000 from 6,000,000 this year, in line with the rising U.S. population and a 6% increase in disposable personal income, said Louis J. Paradise, chief statistician for the U.S. Department of Commerce. But car production will be held down for several months because of the steel strike...
...other-directed statistician-turned-sociologist slipped in through the woodwork last night with a message between his two chiseled teeth: Albert Guerard's Politburo of Comp Lit 166 favorites was re-elected almost unanimously. Topping the psychological ten, two years running, was Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Other perennial repeats included Lord Jim, The Power and the Glory, Death in Venice, and The Immoralist. The Devils replaced The Plague, which was dropped from the course...
...annually, a new record, and industrial production was back up to 142 on FRB's index, only four points below the alltime peak. Where to in 1959? As usual, the forecasters see clearly for six months: a gradual, continuing recovery without explosive boom. Says Louis J. Paradiso, chief statistician for the Commerce Department: "1959 will be moderate. The graph will go back to saucer form. The momentum of the recovery will show a very good rate of increase in the first half, with the second half showing no acceleration...
Gunman Diplomacy. Chanting Arab unity, impoverished, discontented people can be taught to condemn their own lawful Arab rulers as "traitors" merely for entering into agreements with "foreigners." To this persuasive passion, Nasser adds the helping hand of subversion. An Israeli statistician who has been keeping score says that since Nasser came to power, every Arab country has kicked out at least one Egyptian military attache. Such is the menace of Nasser's penetration in other countries that when the Libyans caught their Egyptian attache handing out guns last year, they passed a law expelling all North African military attaches...
...Seventh International Cancer Congress in London this week heard the sobering results of a sweeping study of the effects of smoking on the death rate from cancer and other diseases. Author of the report: Statistician Harold F. Dorn of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Dorn's project was begun in 1954 as a check on the disturbing findings from the American Cancer Society's famed Hammond & Horn survey of 188,000 U.S. males. Researcher Dorn threw his statistical net even wider: it covered 198,000 men (and a sprinkling of women) holding Government life insurance...