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...abroad and to encourage investment in the U.S. by foreign capital, now attracted to higher interest rates overseas. The danger: that higher interest rates might contribute to choking off domestic business activity, as it did before the 1958 recession, and create a worse evil than it was meant to cure...
...accuracy-comparable to the best chemical techniques-and its sensitivity offers crime detection a powerful new weapon. Says Dr. Vincent Guinn, a radiochemist who is director of a joint project of the Atomic Energy Commission, General Dynamics Corp. and the Los Angeles police department: "Neutron activation analysis is no cure-all for crime, nor do I think it will replace regular chemical analysis procedures...
...family and friends conspire to cure him of his vision, and he ends up, like any good little boy, building collective villages out of blocks and playing "Unmask the Kulak." In a thinly disguised satire of Communist Poland, Novelist Stanislaw Len describes the mythical planet of Pinta. Its soil is so arid that the government embarks on a series of irrigation projects...
...Rate Coup. From the very beginning, nothing about the merger had made much sense. Only hope of survival brought the two chains together, in the outside chance that the weld-awkwardly dubbed the News-Call Bulletin-might cure a combined deficit approaching $2,000,000 a year. What Hearst really wanted was to take over its smaller rival; the union was approved only after Scripps-Howard, anxious to hang onto its only West Coast newspaper (its next westernmost outlet is the Albuquerque, N.M. Tribune), paid $500,000 for the right to run the news side of the joint operation, leaving...
About the same time, California's billboard jungle began to bloom with Rafferty signs, and thousands of brochures announced "California schools need the fourth R-Rafferty.'' To Cure Slobbism. Candidate Rafferty's personal formula for curing "slobbism" and the loss of U.S. scientific leadership to "a race of lash-driven atheistic peasants" covered a wide spectrum. He would eliminate fuzzily named "social studies" or "language arts" courses and reinstate plain names, such as history, geography and English. He proposed courses on Communism and free enterprise, and reinstatement of the singing of Columbia...