Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Urgent Questions. Before he sailed, Captain Gralla was called to Washington for high-level briefings on his part in the project. President Eisenhower was planning to announce in late August the U.S.'s willingness to suspend nuclear tests for one year and try to work out a test-detection agreement with the Soviet Union. Before entering into test-ban negotiations, the U.S. needed to try for answers to some vital questions: What would happen when a nuclear explosion took place in a near-vacuum 300 miles above the earth's surface? What were the prospects of coping with...
Witness Slichter, 67, seemed almost affectionate toward price upcreep. "A slow rise in the price level is an inescapable cost of the maximum rate of growth," he said. The effects of slow inflation "are by no means as disastrous as they are frequently described." Like most other economists of the a-little-inflation-never-hurt-anybody school, he failed to make the distinction between the short-term direct effects of price upcreep and the much more serious longer-term psychological effects of accepting price upcreep as inevitable and tolerable (TIME, March...
...training young people capable of becoming leaders of Republican thought," the HYRC's activities--those that there are--range from "political workshops" to occasional speeches. "There's a crying need for a more balanced program," said president Chris Bayley '60, "and we must encourage more participation on an intellectual level...
...Many political arguments are conducted at such a trivial level, merely about which law should be passed and which shouldn't," Shapiro observed. "It would be better to discuss topics such as 'Existentialism and Marxism as an Answer to Man's Alienation in the Modern World'." But, he added sadly, "since most people around here are of capitalistic backgrounds, we can never expect a very large following...
...dismal duty," not a "startling opportunity." This negative attitude is "the projection on a national scale of what we think for ourselves," a desire to be left alone, a belief we can do best by ourselves. "It dates from the nursery. But it doesn't work on the human level, and it won't work on the international level...