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True enough. Johns Hopkins had only three women students at the time, and one of them married a faculty member. The American Medical Association announces not that very few people dream in color, but that "only 5% of Americans" dream in color. New York City has 8,000,000 rats...
Still the state of the art of statistics has come a long way since 1661, when its founding father, London Haberdasher John Graunt, began a careful count and found that more boy babies died in infancy than girls, and concluded that therefore there must be more women than men in...
Critics say that the conglomerates are little more than glorified holding companies. But companies like Litton Industries take the position that they are helping their holdings to grow syn-ergistically-by monitoring them for signs of trouble, providing them with computer and research services and risking money on projects they...
Computers seem efficient, but are they really? To show just how well the electronic brains really work, U.C.L.A. Engineering Professor Gerald Estrin and a colleague, Dr. Bertram Bussell, have set up Project SEE (for Systems Efficiency Expert) and contracted with the Defense Department to monitor a 19-unit, nationwide computer...
> Consolidated Foods Corp., the huge Chicago-based food processor and distributor, hopes to double its sales to $2 billion by 1975, is hungry for acquisitions to help it reach that goal. The latest possibility: New York-based Chock Full O'Nuts, a coffee-processing and luncheonette-chain operation (1966...