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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Economics, pointed out that Premier Nikita Khrushchev's extraordinary efforts to increase Russia's extraordinary efforts to increase Russia's agricultural production and ease the shortage of consumer goods have been only partly successful, due mainly to Russia's generally weak farming resources. In industry, on the other hand, it was pointed out that the Soviet Union "has been growing twice as fast as the U.S. in recent years," and Bergson suggested that the day inevitably would come when Russia surpassed U.S. industrial output unless this country greatly steps up its effort...
...faculty attention lavished--for better or worse on all students. With a school of 194 it is still possible for the faculty to discuss every individual student in the faculty meetings following each set of exams. And in bi-weekly meetings the faculty, with two-week grades at hand, can discuss the most pressing problems at length. Not all students need, or want, or appreciate such close attention, but for many it is the most important service a private school can offer...
...Engineer. The Student Council, in an attempt to raise money for the unemployed, sponsored a series of collections at home football games. The $7,000 collected at the Holy Cross game exceeded by $1,000 the amount collected at the Dartmouth game, and when Yale bounced into town to hand the Crimson its only loss of the season in a close 0-3 game the fans donated nearly...
Birth Boom. What Newsday's readers got was Huxley's pessimistic opinion that his fearful Brave New World is indeed close at hand. It was not until the Year of Our Ford 632 (according to the 1932 novel) that babies were to be grown in laboratories like fungi, happy citizens were to be conditioned by sleep teaching and there was to be no pain, no disease and-theoretically-no independent thought. Now, says Huxley, "The nightmare of total organization . . . has emerged from the safe, remote future." Main factor: the birth boom that has jumped the world...
...other hand, Denver's subcontracting Stanley Aviation Corp., whose business is down 15%, decided that the problem was not too many executives but too few. It added new executives in production control, cost accounting and sales. "When do you add salesmen?" asks President Robert M. Stanley. "When you have more orders than you can fill, or when you don't have enough?" For similar reasons, cameramaker Bell & Howell this year tripled its ad and sales promotion budget to $600,000 for the second quarter as part of President Charles H. Percy's antirecession campaign, while Reynolds Metals...