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...future - they live in an "in tense present." Faith & Fear. Editor Feifel questioned adults on "What does death mean to you?" Answers ranged from stoic accept ance of the inevitable to welcoming the "precondition for the 'true' life of man." Surprisingly, intensity of religious belief is no index to acceptance of death, and the most vociferous exponents of belief in a life beyond death have proved, in Dr. Feifel's sampling, to be the ones most afraid of death...
...question: Is the U.S. growing fast enough? Last week the Federal Reserve Board produced factual proof that the industrial side of the U.S. economy is growing much faster than the Federal Reserve - and most economists - had charted. The faster pace was revealed when the Fed updated its industrial-production index for the first time since 1953; output has been rising at a rate of 4.1% a year from 1947 to date, v. 3.7% previously calculated. As a result, the revised index hit a peak of 166 (1947-49 equals 100) last June before the steel strike, instead...
...capita income during the decade soared from $940 to $1,500, and the work week shrank from 40 to 37.9 hours. In recognition of the new prosperity, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics will soon scrap the list of 300 commodities on which it bases the monthly cost-of-living index. Explained a D.B.S. official: "There is a whole new way of life to keep track...
...prices are virtually stable. During November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced, the cost-of-living index rose only 0.1%, but that was still enough to edge it to an alltime high of 125.6% of the 1947-49 average. But Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Ewan Clague predicted that during the early months of 1960 the index would show little change from the November 1959 level...
...this decade is basically no different from writing in the past." Fortunately, the short stories are a good deal better than the communal preface by their authors. The special atmosphere of the '505 is evoked by a collection whose average of competence is commendably high and whose index of brilliance is somewhat low. It is tempting to moralize that this very flatness is a quality of the decade; more probably, it is only a characteristic of short-story collections...