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...years out of the accepted time span of 5 billion years for the universe as a whole, it seems obvious to Dr. Calvin that on other planets life may have developed to a "posthuman" state, in which creatures on man's level have been succeeded by some higher organism. Dr. Calvin's conclusion: "Life is not a rather special and unique event on one of the minor planets around an ordinary sun at the edge of one of the minor galaxies in the universe," but "a state of matter widely distributed throughout the universe...
...type-cast sexpot keep her cinema charm while 1) pregnant, and 2) on the rise to higher levels of intellect? Can a middle-aged producer reap wild oats? Can a female swimmer be a submarine hostess? Can a tycoon's son carry on? Can a crooner liquidate a photographer? Last week these vital questions met these tentative answers: ¶ Marilyn Monroe, shooting her first Hollywood film (MGM's Some Like It Hot) since she left for New York and re-education two years ago, was pregnant and more intellectual than ever. Marilyn stayed coolly sealed inside the mental...
...consumers the Agriculture Department predicts most foods will be more abundant and cheaper in 1959 than this year. Big harvests this fall and higher supplies of poultry and eggs are already dropping some prices, the department reported. Said Ewan Clague, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics: "The consumer price index is likely to hold around current levels for the next few months. Inflation may turn out to be a problem in the longer run, but it is not an immediate prospect...
Seymour E. Harris '20 disclosed yesterday that his revolutionary long-term loan plan received "a fair amount of support" from the faculty seminar in the Economics of Higher Education on Wednesday...
...call to compromise, however, is not one-sided. So far the United States has offered no explanation for its insistence on a yearly ban rather than a long-term cessation of testing. Some members of the Administration's higher echelons who have never favored a ban on nuclear testing have added to that feeling their political distrust of any agreement whatsoever with the Russians. It would seem that they have been mildly successful in persuading the Administration to move at a halting pace in the negotiations...