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...widely held view is that "general education" needs a broadening if it aims to synthesize exploding fields of knowledge-all of which increasingly impinge on each other. Harvard's famed general education requires that courses be chosen from three major areas (humanities, natural and social sciences), and a high-level committee is busily pondering changes to give it more depth and breadth. Columbia has revamped its own pioneering (1919) general education program. Contemporary Civilization. The required sophomore part used to consist of smatterings from the works of 50 or so great thinkers; now it offers solid courses from anthropology...
...Telstar. It was built to resist an expected level of radiation in space, but just before it was launched, the U.S. exploded a powerful nuclear test bomb above the atmosphere near Johnston Island (TIME, July 20). Eminent scientists had dismissed the suggestion that the test would create much high-level radiation, but their forecast was wildly wrong. Telstar's instruments reported long-lasting radiation 100 times as strong as had been expected...
...abundantly equipped U.S. into a new boom. Instead, some fear that the U.S. may have to rely for domestic growth chiefly on its normal population increase?which seems to expand the economy at a disappointingly modest 3% a year. Faced with this prospect, which the economists have dourly christened "high-level stagnation." U.S. businessmen in 1962 increasingly looked abroad to markets where millions for the first time had money to spend for much beyond the bare necessities. ''When the aluminum market went soft at home." says Kaiser Aluminum's Chairman Edgar Kaiser, "we almost made...
Paradoxical Truth. In his grapple with Chairman Mills, the President got powerful support from a tax program issued by the Committee for Economic Development, an organization of high-level businessmen, educators and economists. C.E.D. urged deep cuts in personal and corporate income taxes-a total of $6 billion in 1963, plus another $5 billion later on, with the second round of reduction conditional upon the Administration's holding the line on expenditures. Such tax cuts "would increase production, employment, investment and growth in the American economy...
Reading through the New York Times last week, President Kennedy came upon a story that demanded action. So the President sent Press Secretary Salinger a memo urging him to look into the possibilities of a high-level Government attempt to remedy a clear evil...