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...dean of science at M.I.T., is convinced that U.S. prosperity rests on research and that research must have unfaltering federal support. "In the new era," says Wiesner, "we must support all the good research available. If we don't, our economic growth is going to falter." Harvard Professor George Kistiakowsky, who was Eisenhower's science adviser, repeats the theme: "All our wealth and affluence is based on the scientific research of the last century." Public support for science, he says, is needed to uncover new knowledge on which to base the affluence of the future...
Many of the books now pouring off the presses on the race issue hesitate, falter, flounder and peter out in mawkish sentimentality or pious preaching. This book by Charles Silberman, a FORTUNE magazine editor, marches in no-nonsense fashion to a number of hard truths that are not meant to comfort or console. It is impossible, writes Silberman, "to tell the truth about race relations without offending and angering men of both colors." Some Silberman points...
...maker of auto mufflers. Looking for broader fields, Arnold Maremont noted that the auto spare-parts business seemed to offer depression-proof growth. The number of cars on the road increases by at least 4,000,000 every year, and spare parts move even when new-car sales falter, because motorists must spend more to keep their old cars running. Maremont also noticed that Detroit auto companies supplied only 30% of the parts, while thousands of independents producing a jumble of reliable and unreliable products fought over the rest. His scheme: to acquire enough independents to make a full line...
...losing headway, or that still another's could not continue without strong medicines. But no one could gainsay the fact that most free, industrialized nations stood clear of crucial economic problems-while the Soviet Union's wheat crop failed, Red China's economy continued to falter at bare subsistence levels and Cuba proved a good showcase of how to ruin an economy in a hurry...
Davis did well for four days. Then his system tried to reject the graft. He ran a fever, and the kidneys began to falter. The doctors boosted Davis' dosage of immunity-suppressing drugs. To their relief, the treatment worked. In the fourth week there was another, similar crisis. Adam's kidneys were behaving toward their new host in about the way a transplanted human kidney would have. X rays and increased drug doses got the fever down and the kidneys went back to work...