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...pore over the pages of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, pillars of the political and economic tradition to which the Republican Club is the delinquent heir. Why, each year department chairman David Landes gives a lecture in which he lambastes Marx as a historian and economist, echoing Raymond Aron's exact words that "Marxism is the opiate of intellectuals." So much for the nursery of radicalism...
...philosophy that private enterprise can do most things better than the Government, the Treasury Department announced last week that it has enlisted a private company to boost the lackluster business in U.S. gold medallions. The coins, previously sold only by the Postal Service, will now be distributed by J. Aron & Co., a Manhattan-based precious-metals dealer, and sold by some 3,000 banks, brokerage-house branches and coin shops...
...Unlike the argon laser, which has been used by eye surgeons for nearly two decades, the YAG does not produce its effect by burning. Instead, it concentrates light energy into very short, intense pulses that create tiny, 1/10-mm cuts. "It causes a very small explosion," explains French Surgeon Daniele Aron-Rosa, who, along with Swiss Surgeon Franz Fankhauser, is credited with inventing YAG surgery...
...Aron's point, however, has a goodly amount of immediate, and unfortunate, practicality. There are not many executives who can appreciate or allow that the skill, say, of time management at home might be applied to office management, just as there are still very few corporations with personnel departments set up to accommodate the needs of the new work force and the flexible family. Other than enlisting the aid of family members, day care remains the most common way to manage the children during work hours...
Floral Vignettas from the Cape of Good Hope--Aron Laurie; Hunnewell Bldg., Arnold Arboretum, Jamalca Plain...