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Congratulations and thanks for the cogent article calling attention to "that phenomenal revolution in society, the foster home" [Oct. 27]. The Hebrew Orphan Asylum is one of six child-care institutions merged during the past two decades to form our agency...
...constitutional convention in 1787, James Madison was a quiet champion of a strong central government. His voluminous notes were by far the best record taken of the convention. When some states balked at ratifying the Constitution, Madison helped Alexander Hamilton and John Jay in writing some of the most cogent political propaganda in U.S. history-the anonymous articles called the Federalist papers...
Probably the most cogent piece is Marc Fasteau's article on the economic problems of disarmament. He first disposes of the fear that economic factors alone would lead to general depression in the event of disarmament. The government, he notes, could continue to pay arms producing corporations after production of weapons had ceased, thus maintaining the status que. In proposing various less costly courses of action for the government, Fasteau eludes the traditional trap for budding economists; disregard of the political verities. He recognizes the widespread tendency to identify Keynes with Communism and temporary deficit spending with personal insolvency. Unlike...
...year ago, and more than the total for the entire record year of 1954. Breaking records before it even hits peak season in late fall, infectious hepatitis is mysteriously appearing and disappearing in city and hamlet, hopscotching the map in a manner that leaves epidemiologists at a loss for cogent explanation. Equally frustrated are the physicians who are trying to treat it, using gamma globulin to help prevent it. and ACTH and cortisone-like drugs to treat the symptoms in some severe cases...
...commonly used. Cancer is a very dirty book indeed. Saying so, the critic runs the risk of being called an anti-intellectual or, worse yet, a square. But in this case, perhaps, the higher sophistication lies on the side of squareness-in the sense that the most cogent objections to Chatterley were voiced not in court or in the newspapers, which all tried hard to be broadminded, but in the intellectual pages of Encounter, in which Critic Colin Welch maintained, squarely, that the book advocates a return to some sort of dark, druidical pre-Christianity and the substitution of phallus...