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Frozen Foods & Baby Sitters. Economists discern significant turns in the way the 92? goes out. Naturally, consumers still think first of food, clothing and shelter, but the manner in which they think of them has changed. As they grow more affluent, Americans are buying steadily bigger and better homes. They eat 117 Ibs. less food a year than their fathers, but are spending $232 a year more for it. This is not so much because prices have risen but because consumers nowadays show a weight-conscious preference for green vegetables over starchy potatoes and a gour met's delight...
...first a devoted Eisenhower follower, Goldwater soon began to feel that he could not discern much difference between "modern Republicanism" and the ideas of the Truman Democrats whom he had helped turn out of office. In 1955 he became chairman of the G.O.P. Senatorial Campaign Committee, a job unusual for a freshman Senator and one that carried him into Republican redoubts all over the country. Wherever he went, he said he sensed a desire among some Republicans for a more conservative course. He had read Locke and Burke, and he was deeply influenced by Friedrich A. Hayek, professor of social...
...movie script is being published this autumn, however, which ignores the close-shot, long-shot lingo of the camera's eye, implicitly mistrusts the camera's capacity to discern, and with a natural if unnecessary eloquence offers its own scene-setting visions of South Pacific backgrounds. Small wonder. Called The Beach of Falesá, the script was written by Dylan Thomas. In its stagy directions, "a stream foams out of the descending galleries and gardens of the tremendous, verdurous, impenetrable high interior of the island," and a "lantern and the moonlight make the bush all turning shadows that...
There are many ways of investigating a company, as CORE is now studying Harvard Trust, to discern whether it discriminates against Negro job applicants. The first way, Gartner said, is just to look, but that technique often is inconclusive. As a second step CORE often contacts local leaders, such as ministers and politicians, for their advice. If these methods prove insufficient, CORE will then "test" the company by sending both white and Negro applicants for the same...
Katayev labeled as a "strange interpretation" any attempt to discern in Khrushchev's recent attack on modern art any limitation on freedom of expression. "Khrushchev's statement applied specifically to art; it did not carry over to the theatre, writing, or any other area," he said. "And," quipped Rozov, "why shouldn't we argue about abstract...