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...Slichter, White House Economic Adviser Raymond Saulnier, and the Federal Reserve's William McChesney Martin have different ideas on growth. They argue that force-feeding offers no assurance of healthy growth, and point to the fact that all the spending and big deficits of the 1930s did not lick the Depression. On the contrary, the U.S. had its two most prosperous years -1956 and 1957-when the budget ran a surplus...
...first convention of the merged New York A.F.L.-C.I.O., Meany last week dismissed Summerfield as "a little ward heeler from Detroit." Then he made his threat: "I have always said that we do not want our own political party, but if we have to do that to lick the people who want to drag us back to the past, we will start our own political party and do a good...
...newsmen usually make indifferent conventioners. Faced with a gathering of their own clan, they either ignore it or show up reluctantly, prepared to sit out the interminable sessions in bored and unresponsive silence. Last week's silver anniversary convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association at French Lick, Ind. was no exception, but before the session was over, the editors got down to some plain talk about themselves. Items: ¶Nieman Curator Louis M. Lyons, onetime Boston Globe reporter, flatly charged that daily journalism has degenerated into a "holding operation, and not holding everywhere...
...Lick from a Cow. The Genesis version of what happened in the Garden of Eden, says Graves, is the result of a process he calls"iconotropy"-the misreading of pictures and symbols from one culture to fit the religious bias of another. He cites the familiar myth of Europa and the bull as an example of this process: the Greeks developed the patriarchal Zeus cult at the expense of the once sovereign "Moon-goddess" by interpreting a Cretan icon of the "Goddess dominating the Minos Bull by riding on its back, as though Zeus, in bull disguise, were carrying...
...violence is parodied too, but in a sly way that permits the moviegoer to lick his lips over the horror just before he sees the humor of a situation-or vice versa. One moment, for example, the audience is snickering at a dumb chorine, and the next it is staring aghast at her lifeless body in a bathtub that seems at first glance to be full of raspberry soda-very picturesque in Metro-color. And during a mob war, when a punk catches a packet, does he do the conventional clutch-and-crumple? Not at all. He explodes...