Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intricate Combination. The vigor and eloquence of the appeals, delivered from the unique platform of Death Row, have caught the public ear as they once caught the ear of cops, judges and social workers when Chessman began his life of crime back in the 1930s. Caryl Chessman was a bumbling criminal, but he had a special genius: he has always known by instinct the intricate combinations that lead to the law's heart. In his teens he won second chances (for more crime) with a patter of contrition and redemption. ("I now see crime in its true light...
Circulation now over 3,000,000 UNLESS you were a guest of India's Maharajah of Bharatpur during the 1930s, your chances of seeing a current issue of TIME anywhere outside North America were slim. The maharajah was then paying $585.60 a year to have his copy air-expressed to him each week; 20,000 other overseas subscribers waited for their copies to reach them by ship...
...chart), estimated from the growth of the labor force, average man-hours of work, the nation's total investment in plant and equipment. He found that only in times of great boom has the U.S. achieved the top limits of the growth potential. During the Depression of the 1930s, the spread between the actual G.N.P. and the potential was so wide that it took the U.S. until the middle of World War II to catch up. Subsequent recessions have also held the U.S. below its top potential. Even 1959's G.N.P. of $425.6 billion was $31 billion less...
...charting the future, Knowles makes a key assumption of his own: that the U.S. knows enough about its economy and has built so many safeguards that it will not again fall into a major depression similar to the 1930s. With increased stability, says he, the U.S. can count on a "very substantial increase in the growth rate, affecting the rate of growth of the labor force, the rate of decline in hours of work, the rate of accumulation of capital, the speed with which new technology is incorporated in actual production processes and the composition of demand...
Died. Igor V. Kurchatov, 57, Soviet physicist who began tentative nuclear studies in the 1930s, ended up directing the fierce-driving organization that produced the Soviet atomic bomb in 1949, the hydrogen bomb in 1953; of a heart attack; in Moscow. The first Soviet atomic explosion came as a shock to the West largely because it was ignorant of the years of preparation of Kurchatov and his colleagues. Kurchatov, in fact, boasted that Russia invented the first real hydrogen bomb, since the thermonuclear device exploded earlier by the U.S. was too large to serve as a weapon...