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Farmer Diskord, the Richest and most Influential of the Agriculturalists, consented, after much urging, to loan his best Stud, Hybrid, to the Colony's Central Experimental Station. Hybrid was First, Foremost, the most prized of all the Colony's prize Studs. His special Characteristic was that he was never the exact same Creature on two successive Days. But was found always to be a Variation, or a Departure, from the Day just preceding...
...teaching of Britain's late John Maynard Keynes, who articulated how changes in taxes and government spending can stabilize business cycles. The philosophy of Keynes, who died in 1946, has dominated the economic policies of industrial nations since World War II. Today's prevailing belief, however, is a hybrid; most economists now consider themselves "Friedmanesque Keynesians." Having risen from maverick to messiah, Friedman ranks with Walter Heller and John Kenneth Galbraith as one of the most influential U.S. economists of the era. Heller, who was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under President Kennedy, has whimsically classified...
...parallel attack on elm disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to cross the disease-prone American elm with the hardy Siberian variety. Even if the hybrid is a success, elm lovers are not likely to be pleased. The new tree clearly lacks the grace of its American parent. "It has a single, central trunk rather than our beautiful vaselike division," says Hansel. "Who will want a tree that looks more like a maple than...
...aftermaths of last February's demise of the Saturday Evening Post was the fact that the Curtis Publishing Co. had no magazines at all, while the Post's sister publications, Holiday and Jack and Jill, were the property of a corporate hybrid called the Saturday Evening Post Co. Last week some semblance of the good old days was restored when Curtis reacquired Jack and Jill and Holiday. Simultaneously, there came an echo of the era when kids could earn roller skates, baseball mitts and bikes by selling Post subscriptions. Henceforth, announced the November issue of Jack and Jill...
...allow the spacecraft to be whipped around the moon by lunar gravity and hurled back safely to the earth. Some 31 hours after liftoff, however, Apollo 12's situation was changed drastically. Conrad fired the 20,500-lb.-thrust service propulsion engine and sent his ship into a "hybrid" trajectory. The new flight path was necessary to set the astronauts down at their landing site on the Ocean of Storms at the right time of lunar day. On this course, too, Apollo could loop the moon and head back if its big engine failed to fire again. But, even...