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OPINION Corruption of the Mind Still cherished by many Westerners is the hope that one fine day a summit meeting will melt Russian suspicions of the West and bring about a lasting thaw in the cold war. Last week Russian Expert George Frost Kennan, 53, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, longtime favorite foreign-relations philosopher of U.S. liberal Democrats, did a thorough demolition job on the summit-meeting idea. Currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, Kennan argued in a speech broadcast by the BBC that summit meetings with the Russians are doomed in advance to failure. Reason: Soviet leaders...
Andrew G. Haley, renowned American space expert, who shared the platform on the International Law Club's program, emphasized the fact that both our sociological and technical development must keep pace with the Russians to prevent "jeopardizing our own situation...
Where Is Bottom? Whether or not the Fed's action meant that the stock market had also hit bottom when it closed off at 419.79 on Oct. 22 was any expert's guess. Wall Street was still filled with bears who considered the stock rally only temporary, to be followed by a further decline to 400 or 380 on the Dow-Jones average. They talked of "technical factors," deterioration in investor confidence, and a downturn in business, disregarded plans for bigger defense spending and the chances of an unbalanced budget next year (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Just...
...these reasons, many a financial expert thinks that the U.S. must not only lift the debt limit; it must also change the way it thinks of the debt. When the ceiling was put on, the debt was 130% of the gross national product. But as the economy grew, the comparative size of the debt shrank until now it is only 62% of the gross national product. Thus, the federal debt could be doubled-and the burden would still be less than it was ten years...
...engineers before and during World War II, was named technical assistant to President Leston Faneuf of Bell Aircraft Corp. Dornberger directed V-1 and rocket-powered V-2 missiles at Peenemunde, Germany's big rocket-research center, where he bossed Wernher von Braun, a top U.S. Army missile expert. Dornberger later developed Bell's Rascal, air-to-surface guided missile how used by the Strategic Air Command...