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...aerospace barely begun, the 200-year-old Industrial Revolution has given way to a Technological Revolution that is working profound changes on U.S. society and the U.S. economy. In less than a decade, aerospace has grown into a $14 billion-a-year industry serviced by 50,000 suppliers who employ men and materials from, just about every city, village and hamlet in the nation. Newspapers bulge with want ads for stress analysts, aerothermodynamicists, flutter and vibration specialists. New plants are being built not where the rivers or railroads are, but where the brains are. Around Boston, a bustling aerospace...
...reviewed for Kennedy. They judged the tactical elements sound, and indeed they accorded the operation a high probability of success. But some of Kennedy's closest advisers were assailed by sinking second thoughts. What bothered them was the "immorality" of masked aggression. They recoiled from having the U.S. employ subterfuge in striking down even as dangerous an adversary as Castro, and they were unanimously opposed to having the U.S. do the job in the open...
...Film. New York's 836 schools enroll nearly 1,000,000 students, more than all the men in the U.S. Army. This year the schools cost $567.7 million (plus $66.6 million for new construction), more than the budget of the state of Missouri. The schools employ not only 40,000 teachers but also more administrators than all of France. The system is smothered in a bureaucracy so ponderous that vital problems never reach "Livingston Street," or board headquarters, a soot-stained Brooklyn building that once housed the Elks of the region...
Many educators disagree sharply with the idea that children should be trained in the art of I.Q. improvement, and fear that overanxious parents may employ books such as Rosenfeld's. to make their child test-wise but no wiser, and perhaps more neurotic...
...except to men with relatives in the trade. "A man's knowledge is his livelihood," explains Dealer David Ruff. "You make a decision a minute, and it's easy to make a costly mistake." Most wholesale dealers have small shops, sell at a 5% or 7% markup, employ brokers who do the actual leg work for a 1% or 2% commission. Nearly 80% of the West 47th Street trade is wholesale, but there is also a thriving retail business. ''There are some real bargains here." says one dealer...