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There have been important economic and technological byproducts of the space program, but in the long run there is perhaps no entirely rational way in which to assess it. Such a project can only be viewed and approved -if approved at all-in inspirational terms. "The real reason for undertaking the space program," says one Apollo defender, Physicist Harold Urey, who is quoted in Journey to Tranquility, "is an innate characteristic of human beings, namely, some curious drive to try to do what might be thought to be impossible-to try to excel in one way or another." Urey compares...
Opposition Up. What would happen if broadcast advertising were indeed restricted? The networks would,stand to lose about $200 million in revenues (11% of their total), the bulk of which the manufacturers would probably channel elsewhere. Most likely, they would spend part of it-but not all-in other media. They would also invest some in further diversification and spend more for coupons and contests. They might even increase their budgets for scientific research into smoking and health...
Armah can barely allow his character the luxury of hope. Out of the once-crushed idealist's instinct for self-protection, he cannot allow himself any hope at all-in the text. But what a tidal wave of yearning surges under that title! For Armah, at heart, is still a dreamer who shakes his defiant fist at the world because he has not yet found it worthy of the dreams he weaves about...
...which works out to $25,000 a head for the 200 pros on the tour. A fellow could put himself into a way-up tax bracket merely by winning one tournament: the $250,000 Westchester Classic, whose first prize will be $50,000. Or he could try to win them all-in which case his gross would be $1,000,000. Or he could just plug along, enjoying the exercise. If he finished no better than 15th in every tournament, his income would...
...huge gingerbread building in The Hague last week, 15 elderly jurists strode solemnly into the courtroom of the International Court of Justice to resume their deliberate deliberation of some of the world's less pressing problems. While the crises in Laos, Berlin, Suez and Cuba get settled-if at all-in the harsher corridors of power politics, the World Court contents itself with less basic disputes. The reason: no major power has so far entrusted the court with the decisions that most matter...