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...Massachusetts legislature slipped a keg of dynamite onto ints statute books. The lawmakers authorized calling a national convention to add an amendment to the U.S. Constitution limiting taxes to twenty-five percent of personal and corporate incomes. This week, the legislature is considering rescinding this request, to cut the fuse before the keg blows up in the face of the American people...
Design 1 embodies the ideas of the Bauhaus and of Walter Gropius--and the students and teachers at the Bauhaus were among the few who seriously considered the problem of living and creating in a mechanized society. They attempted to fuse technology and art, believing that a unifled theory of design should be the link between all forms of work. It is apparent that living in the world of today cannot be done by skulking behind lantern slides of the past or by fleeing into over-specialization. A relatively good stand against this is being made by the General Education...
...eternal problems of poverty, sickness and famine. The Communists, with a beachhead in Parliament and the inimitable Communist talent for waxing fat on misery, will be standing by and hoping for failure. "This," observed a U.S. official in India, "is a problem with a five-year time fuse...
...process of building such intricate gadgets as radar, sonar and the proximity fuse, electronics engineers learned to measure time down to fractions as small as one millionth of a second. Last week at Brookhaven National Laboratory's nuclear science symposium, scientists agreed that one millionth is still too thick a slice of time for modern work: measurements for atomic experiments must be made a great deal faster than that...
Republicans on Capitol Hill note that there have been few firings until investigations lit the fuse. Said Nebraska's Representative Carl Curtis, commenting on Administration promises of a housecleaning: "I think they will clean up anything they know we can prove...