Word: economist
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...Center also has specialists from other institutions who are working on a particular problem. This year, Professor Herbert Marcuse from the Columbia Russian Research Center is doing work in Russian philosophy. The other senior fellow, former State Department economist Alexander Eckstein is completing a thesis on the economics of the Russian satellite countries and what happens to these countries during the period of Russian domination...
...success of the London Daily Mirror," lamented the staid London Economist, "is a sore reflection upon a democracy, sometimes called educated, that prefers its information potted, pictorial, and spiced with sex and sensation." Nevertheless, just that style of journalism has made the Mirror the biggest daily in the world (circ. 4,432,700). Last week 40-year-old Mirror Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp ("If you don't like the Mirror, you don't like the human race") told the erratic success story of the paper in a book, Publish and Be Damned!, as irreverent and racy...
France's Architect Le Corbusier, the prophet of vertical living who thinks that even Manhattan skyscrapers are too small, came in for some criticism last week in London's Economist. His familiar prescription for overflow populations from ever-growing cities is the super apartment house, a kind of human hive (he has just finished a 20-floor prototype at Marseille, placing 1,500 people on a 450-by-66-ft. plot). The alternative, says the Economist, is the sprawling suburb, "the village green multiplied by unplanned expansion" that all too easily turns into an "amorphous and soulless mess...
Died. Lewis Corey (real name: Louis C. Fraina), 61, author-economist, who helped organize the U.S. Communist Party (1919) and became its first secretary; of meningitis; in Manhattan. Born in Italy, he came to the U.S. as a child, joined the Socialist Party, after the 1917 Bolshevist Revolution emerged as a spokesman of the party's Marxist extremists, hoped to become an American Lenin. Under federal indictment for sedition, Agitator Corey fled the country in 1920, in Moscow got a hero's welcome and a disillusioning first look at the new workers' paradise. Back...
...nationalization brought about by Labor (steel, transport, coal) in its six years in power, the unions said cannily that caution and further study are necessary before further nationalization is attempted. It was a remarkably conservative stand ("The report goes far beyond caution about nationalization," commented the influential Economist. "It goes against nationalization"). "Betrayal!" cried voices from the left wing. But the majority did not think so. Armed with proxies for the full T.U.C. membership, the delegates adopted the report, 4,978,000 against 2,640,000. It was a thundering defeat for Nye Bevan's web-spinners...