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...human error. Should no one notice a major development, or should a number of seemingly unrelated minor developments signify trouble, electronic brains set off flashing lights, ring bells, and sound other assorted alarms. On one switch box where alarms are manually triggered, a NORAD operator has already taped a crude sign: "Don't push buttons. It makes a real offensive noise...
...world price of residual fuel oil, of which Venezuela is the prime supplier. By pressuring the subsidiaries of such U.S. giants as Jersey Standard, Gulf, Socony Mobil, Texaco and Atlantic Refining, they also hope to persuade the U.S. Government to increase the import quotas for Venezuelan crude oil, which brings a higher price than fuel...
...feel deeply grateful to you for your tribute to John Maynard Keynes [Dec. 31]. It is so understandingly appreciative and so effective. In the crude early days of our economic development, Marx shrewdly appraised our system's weakness -workers got only a subsistence wage, were thus unable to buy back the product of their labor. Marx advocated revolution as the remedy. It was Keynes who saw the way out. As a result of his influence, wealth circulates with great freedom in our whole society, as you so well state. It is this triumphant answer to Marx that makes...
Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government, labelled as "old and rather crude" the idea that "where annual elections end, tyranny begins. There has been a growing recognition that the two-year term tradition is nonsense," he said yesterday. "No one now seriously thinks that a legislature elected every four years is any more tyrannical than one elected twice as often," he commented...
...both ideologies are becoming more humanistic. Such Christian thinkers as Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, he argues, have restated the old Christian dichotomy of "either God or the world" in terms of a new "God in the world relationship." At the same time, Marxist intellectuals are abandoning their own crude "materialistic determination." Some Marxists now admit that the Christian's act of faith "bears witness to the grandeur of man." What Marxism attacked in the past was not Christians' "faith, love, aspirations and hopes," but the church's entanglement with such secular forces as capitalism or monarchical...