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...American Cancer Society's annual meeting in Manhattan last week, Statistician E. Cuyler Hammond posed a question: "Are we batting our heads against a stone wall-an insurmountable barrier?" On the basis of crude figures he reported: "We are faced with a frustrating fact. Ten short years ago, 177,000 Americans died of cancer. This year it is estimated that 243,000 Americans will die of this disease...
...Statistician Hammond (TIME, June 13) was quick to point out that a lot of cancer figures can be misleading. Up to 1930, some of the apparent increase was due to improvements in diagnosis and in the reporting system. Since 1930, the overall cancer death rate among males has risen from 115 to 146 per 100,000 in a year, but this is due almost entirely to the explosive increase in lung cancer; in other forms of cancer the rate is virtually unchanged. Among women, the cancer death rate has actually decreased, from...
AUTO RACE between Ford and Chevrolet for No. 1 spot is grille-and-grille. For the first six months of 1955, R. L. Polk & Co., the industry statistician, reported: Chevrolet, 756,317; Ford...
...70th birthday when his term expired. If Ike serves a full second term, he will hold the record for presidential longevity: 70 years and 98 days. The oldest President, William Henry Harrison, died of pneumonia at 68, one month after his inauguration. In a study of presidential life spans, Statistician Louis Dublin discovered that Presidents inaugurated before 1850 outlived their life expectation by 2.9 years. Those inaugurated between 1850 and 1900 failed to reach their expectation of life by 2.9 years, on the average...
OVER lunch recently, a statistician in our promotion department numbered sugar cubes from one to seven, then shuffled them around. He estimated that the chance of correctly listing the new order of the numbered cubes would be roughly 1 in 5,000. By last week he would have had no trouble at all convincing the advertising specialists who competed in the fifth TIME Circulation Letter Sweepstakes...