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Despite these signs of disunity, all of the Eastern regimes are, simply, Communist. To expect them to change overnight is a daydream. But Communism itself is learning to adapt to human needs, is undergoing...
...sort but on a fantastic scale. Even for small nations, several man-years of effort would be necessary to incorporate all the fine-grained statistics need for an effective plan. Although each nation requires a different population policy in accordance with its particular development program, the computer could easily adapt its core of "hard knowledge" gained from research in the field...
Died. Joseph Albert Fields, 71, Broadway playwright and brother of Lyricist Dorothy (Sweet Charity) Fields, a one time screenwriter who in 1940 teamed with Jerome Chodorov to adapt stories for the stage, turned out such comedies as My Sister Eileen and Junior Miss, later wrote the librettos for hit musicals Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (with Anita Loos) and Flower Drum Song (with Oscar Hammerstein); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...real, crisis, Mrs. Bunting suggested, lay in the ability of the graduate schools to adapt to "the rather dramatic change in the way young women are planning their lives...
...world-famous novelist and the relatively unknown magazine writer soon became fast friends. They went fishing together in Cuba, watched bullfights in Spain, hunted the pheasant country of Idaho, and toured France. "Papa" and "Hotch" got along so well together that Papa gave his friend the right to adapt some of his novels and short stories for movies and TV. And because they were inseparable companions, Hotch became aware of Papa's gradually increasing periods of depression, his dark and suicidal moods. There was a time when Hemingway tried to jump out of a plane in flight; on another...