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Zinsser told Enders that if he would work up his chemistry and physics in the summer, he could have a laboratory assignment in the fall. Enders did not leap at the offer; he moves too thoughtfully and slowly for that. But he took it. In May 1928 he wrote to a friend: "This antipodal revolution of my studies has been of large value in helping me to obtain that Pisgah* sight of things and people that perhaps is the ultimate aim of my apparently inconsistent, faltering and obscure action." In 1930, at the age of 33, Enders got a Ph.D...
...Since 1947 the productivity of nonagricultural workers in the U.S. has increased by an average of 3% a year, rising in recovery periods to 7.5%. But in this year's economic bounce-back, productivity has soared by a remarkable annual rate of 9.5%. Chief explanation of this sudden leap, Government economists believe, is that industry is finally beginning to reap the rewards of its free-spending investment in new plant, equipment and research during the late 1950s...
...Cleopatra, Cinemactress Liz Taylor, 28, swathed herself in black from rain-hatted head right on down past pelvis-hugging slacks to cowboy-booted toes, joined Husband Eddie Fisher, 33, on a shopping expedition in Rome. Even in this relatively chaste garb, Liz proved capable of disrupting traffic, had to leap from the path of a gaping motorist who forgot for a moment where his brake...
...underlying most attitudes is that there are no moral limits to the damage we may inflict on the enemy at a distance," though there are still some scruples about what may be done to individuals at close hand. The U.S., Bennett feels, is in danger of making "a moral leap from the posture of deterrence to the will to initiate nuclear war at some stage in a conflict, and that this moral leap has not been faced and discussed among us." The churches, he feels, can do little or nothing to condition the course of the Berlin crisis...
...world's three biggest art and rare books auction houses. Aside from the Bonnard, two other paintings broke records. A splendid, red-faced Valet de Chambre by Chaim Soutine brought $76,000, nearly four times Soutine's auction record of seven years ago. An even bigger leap in value: a pair of superbly winsome lovers by Marc Chagall for $77,500, whose auction price was about half that only last April...