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...welcome Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm [Jan. 25] to the world of politics. He can do much less harm there than he has done with the human mind...
...begin to deteriorate, but in the process they use up oxygen. Within two or three weeks there is so much carbon dioxide in the air that the ripening process slows practically to a halt. Trouble is, the controlled atmosphere has to be carefully checked; too much CO2 can also harm the fruit. A second trouble is that once the warehouse is opened to remove a load, the whole process has to be started once more...
...Mississippi he praised so highly before the Law School Forum. Boston, Cambridge, and Harvard did well by him while he was here. Boston and Cambridge police protected him, and the Harvard police surrounding Memorial Hall prevented the thousand ticket holders who were refused admission from suffering any greater harm than disappointment...
Kennedy seemed to feel that there was no great harm in the bloating national debt. "The ability of the nation to service the federal debt rests on the income of its citizens, whose taxes must pay the interest. Total federal interest payments as a fraction of the national income have fallen from 2.8% in 1946 to 2.1% last year. The gross debt itself as a proportion of our G.N.P. has also fallen steadily-from 123% in 1946 to 55% last year. Under the budgetary changes scheduled this year and next, these ratios will continue their decline...
Much better, say the Beltsville entomologists, is the sneakier scheme of using synthetic sex lure to trick the males into crawling over a chemical that will sterilize them but do them no harm in any other way. They will mate normally with normal females whenever they get the opportunity...