Word: highnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...population growth--a figure exceeded by many of these countries--twelve per cent of the national income should be invested. These countries, however, cannot afford both to raise living standards and feed millions of new citizens. At some point, the vicious circle of low investment, low living standards, and high birth rates must be broken...
...While "high tragedy requires an heroic alternative rejected," pathos emerges from a feeling that no alternatives exist. To say that "God is dead," as Nietzsche did, is tragic, because if He were alive He could save us. But to declare that God is absent is a "weary dismissal of all alternatives...
John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Caves and Mountains gives contrasting views of spelunking (in the Pyrenees) and mountaineering (in the French Alps...
...months of 1959 were down $40 million, with a $6,400,000 drop (to $9,000,000) in profits. Once again C-W was suspended from trading as investors tried frantically to dump their stock. When trading was resumed, C-W dropped, wound up 5⅞ points below the high...
Drawings call for a 40,000 square foot "F"-shaped structure with a glass and concrete facade. The building will be connected to the rotunda of the present College Observatory, and will provide complete office and laboratory space, as well as room for a new high-speed IBM 709 digital computer--a faster model than the one now used by Smithsonian to track earth satellites...