Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sumner H. Slichter, 67, white-thatched, aggressively independent economist, Lament Professor (1940-59) at Harvard, who tested his academic theories by constant contact with people active in business, labor and government, filled nine books and countless articles with a hard-headed faith in the buoyancy of the U.S. economy, condoned inflation as the price of increased productivity, and even (1959) urged a $3 billion annual federal deficit to sustain demand; of a kidney ailment; in Boston. A startlingly accurate economic prophet, Slichter usually championed the minority view. When his fellow economists took a leaf from Marx and gloomily predicted...
...younger generation. To Britain's Arthur Koestler, they seemed "earnest, bland, sober ... a generation without profile, whose typical gesture is a great silent shrug." In Germany, a Volkswagen personnel man remarked with distaste: "By 19, most of them are satisfied little bourgeois." But the most plaintive and perceptive lament came from a parent in Denmark: "I sometimes wonder if our youngsters know they are Danish...
During the opening sessions the well-financed Russians had comparatively little to say. Most striking papers came from Columbia University's Lament Geological Observatory, whose single seagoing ship, the battered schooner Vema, is a midget compared to the Lomonosov and more than once has been embarrassed in out-of-the-way ports for lack of money to buy supplies. Lament Men Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heezen, both members of an oceanographic subspecies whose real interest is the bottom, told how the Vema's probing-on-a-shoestring may have solved the ancient mystery of how the earth...
Crack in the Ridge. Lament's theory of the earth started taking shape several years ago when electronic depth-measuring equipment spotted a peculiar crack in the top of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the strange underwater mountain range that snakes down the center of the North and South Atlantic. Other explorations proved that the crack followed the ridge's top faithfully from north to south...
...coming of age this season, the game is stronger than it has been in years. Attendance is creeping up even in the minors, after a decade of hurtling down. This season, in fact, the fans are too busy following the action on the diamond to engage in the old lament of what's-wrong-with-baseball. This summer, nothing...