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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the process of association fills the initial intuition with the pastness of dead data-stuff the impact of this intuition is reduced to that of general experience." intellectual confusion prevailing among painters springs partly from "critical permissiveness": "Our esthetic yardstick is geared largely to the novel. We expect the same kind of dramatic discoveries from our artists that we do from our scientists. The wide-open mind which accepts anything in the name of art is one of the worst threats that artists face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: What Is? | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Canada's Bureau of Statistics last week reported employment at an alltime high, with 6,053,000 at work and unemployment running lower than Ottawa economists dared expect only a few months ago. The number of jobless Canadians dropped sharply last month to 234,000, which is 3.7% of the labor force, compared with 10% in March 1958. As the result of stronger demand for Canadian raw materials in the bullish U.S. recovery, Canadian exports to the U.S. surged to $321.1 million in June (v. $233.6 million in June 1958), and overall exports were up to a one-month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Toward New Records | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Even conservative economists now expect that-barring a steel strike more than six weeks long-the economy will roll steadily on to $490 billion in the current quarter. Then only a few weeks will separate it from the half-trillion-dollar threshold. At that rate of growth, the U.S. economy will hit the $750 billion mark before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Outdoing the Optimists | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...Daytona Beach, after bidding seven spades, laid down his 13 spades. The ensuing uproar was capped when Edward Root, 16, of St. Petersburg, jotted a formula on the blackboard, ran some figures through a table computer, did some paper work and announced that a bridge player could expect such a hand once in 635,013,559,600 deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Summer Scholars | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...plane immediately; if not, an attendant checks whether space is available, passes the passenger through. Only when the aircraft is aloft does the passenger pay an agent for his ticket and any excess baggage. Passengers still need reservations to be absolutely certain of a seat, but the airlines expect plenty of extra seats to be available once the big-load jets (no passengers v. the DC-7's 75) start flying in quantity. Passengers will be able to arrive at the airport up to ten minutes before flight time, v. the usual 20 or 30 minutes now required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Pay as You Fly | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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