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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower on his return from California last week were the written and oral reports, carefully compiled and closely considered, from U.S. officials who had seen the most of Nikita Khrushchev during his visit. In their considerable bulk, the reports ranged from opinions about Khrushchev's purposes at the highest policy levels down to some fascinating details about his personal impression...
...Highest Flight of Metaphysics...
John Dewey continues to say that we should go "back (not to traditional Platonism, but) to the dramatic, restless, co-operatively inquiring Plato of the dialogues... whose highest flight of Metaphysics always terminated with a social and practical turn.... Upon the whole the forces that have influenced me have come from persons and from situations more than from books." He expressed the faith that the philosophy of the future would be characterized by unification or integration of thought without artificiality...
Hugh Gaitskill's Laborites, although they have retained the support of over forty per cent of the electorate, must do more than lick their wounds if they are to regain power at all. The composition of the British electorate, representing the highest industrial working class in the world, should be uniquely favorable to a left-wing party. Yet in no election has the Labor Party won even fifty per cent of the vote. One of every three manual workers votes Conservative, including over three million trade unionists whos unions are committed to the Labor Party...
...Treasury Department, which has had trouble raising the cash it needs, last week found a way to tap some new money. It issued $2 billion in four-year, ten-month notes at an interest rate of 5%, the highest since the tight-money days of 1929. The rate was so attractive that an avalanche of subscriptions poured in from small investors. Said New York's Manufacturers Trust: "It was fantastic. Everyone in the Government bond department was too busy to even go out for lunch." To help lure in individuals, the Treasury guaranteed that subscriptions...