CERN members seek better deal

Mental Hygiene Office Aides Seek Better Deal in Wages , Hours : Conditions of Work

FRANK E, McKINNEy, new cha i rman of the Democratic National Committee, last week came out formally against sin. "A public office is a public t rust ," he re peated, with credit to the late president Grover Cleveland. Mr. McKinney then attacked the g ra f te r s in government, flailing about h inr with a display of oratorical vigor. President T ruman seconded these sentiments with a let ter urg...

Big Deal - good deal? Or is there a better deal?

A Better Deal for Subnormals

The past few years have seen a greater recognition of the part that research can play in estimating the need for medical care services, in analysing the ways in which such services actually function, as distinct from the ways in which they are conventionally assumed to function, and in assessing their effects upon patients. Such operational studies have already done a great deal to deepen our u...

A Better Way to Deal the Cards

Most of the work on card shuffling assumes that all the cards in a deck are distinct, and that in a well-shuffled deck all orderings need to be equally likely. We consider the case of decks with repeated cards and decks which are dealt into hands, as in bridge and poker. We derive asymptotic formulas for the randomness of the resulting games. Results include the influence of where a poker deck ...

A better deal for lung-diseased miners?