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...early spring's foul weather; employment in manufacturing, the economy's soft spot, actually declined again in May. And Capitol Hill's bearish Joint Economic Committee predicted last week that the economy will not get back its full pre-recession robustness until mid-1959 at the earliest, and possibly not until late...
...Murphy replied to Green-but on a much loftier plane of the law. "As judges," wrote Murphy, "we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic. We owe equal attachment to the Constitution and are equally bound by our judicial obligations, whether we derive our citizenship from the earliest or the latest immigrants to these shores." The mere making of a charge of judicial bias "quickens the conscience of the judge and makes him more careful in discharging his duties. The sunshine of awareness has an antiseptic effect on prejudice...
...somewhat shaky step in the direction of an effective space program was taken by President Eisenhower a few weeks ago when he proposed that Congress establish a National Aeronautics and Space Agency to conduct research and to administer explorations. The Agency, "at the earliest possible date," would assume work done and undone by a maze of organizations, including the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Advisory Commission for Aeronautics...
Traditions have a way of springing up suddenly, asserting their antiquity, and going unquestioned. Some of the earliest accounts of confetti battles refer to them as "traditional." Somebody had to throw the first handful of confetti, but who ever it was remains unknown. There are theories, of course, which account for the origin of the confetti battle. Some claim it originated when Tree Day rites were in fact Tree Day riots; others maintain that; pre-game rallies generated confetti throwing...
...other development found some of its earliest modern representatives in the German romantic philosophers, who sought to preserve the validity of various dogmas by taking them symbolically--seeing them as poetic anticipations of their own profound ontological discoveries. Thus Hegel explained the Trinity as a figurative approximation to his everlasting metaphysical waltz-step of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, and Professor Tillich finds the doctrine of the Incarnation still viable because it expresses "the principle of the divine self-manifestation in the ground of being itself ... the dynamic spiritual word which mediates between the silent mystery of the abyss of being...