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...Dandridge MacFarlan Cole, 39, is a respected high-level engineer in the Missiles and Space Vehicle Department of the General Electric Co. On his own time, Engineer Cole worries about the future of the human species-which he regards as very chancy, indeed. Last week at a meeting of the American Astronautical Society in Dallas, Cole argued that the best hope for humanity is to desert the earth entirely, and offered his own way-out plan for making the escape...
There seems to be some high-level Republican pouting because Mr. Dillon accepted a Cabinet post. As a Republican, I would like to comment to the disgruntled that Mr. Dillon is, first, an American and, second, a Republican; and he will probably serve our country well...
...entry in the economic phrasemaking derby came from Charles L. Schultze of Indiana University, who described current conditions as "high-level creeping stagnation." The major reason for the economy's failure to rise strongly from the 1958 recession, said Schultze, was too much tightening of credit by the Federal Reserve Board, and the Government's attempt to "budget for an overly large surplus." "If these restraints were relaxed," added Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution, "I would have little doubt that the economy would grow faster and that this growth would be interrupted less frequently by periodic recession...
...British Birds. Apart from the high-level gossip, she gives a picture of the astonishing toughness of the British aristocracy. For all the physical grace and fragility that made her famous as an amateur actress playing madonna and nun in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, in time of war no patrician matron of Imperial Rome could have been more intransigent, bellicose and stoic. Despite invincible fear of air travel, she flew with Duff in countless trips to zones of war, sometimes "hard-arse" (Lady Diana's phrase). She endured inconceivable official tedium, the horrors of the Indian...
...third danger, Boulding concluded, is affluence. The question to be decided is whether we can develop a high-level equilibrium not dependent on mass consumption...