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...Oversold Public. A large public, happily mixing fact & fiction, apparently believes that space travel is just around the corner. Two years ago New York's Hayden Planetarium whimsically offered "reservations" to the moon and planets. It got 25,000 requests, many of them deadly serious, from all over the world. Every military guided missile center has to chase "space volunteers" away from its guarded perimeter...
These large, economy-size emotions are packaged in purple dialogue and strenuously oversold by Director Anthony (Winchester '73) Mann. To satisfy his enthusiasm for arty, heavily filtered photography, virtually all the outdoor scenes take place in the murky half-light of dawn or dusk, to the point where the movie seems to suggest that the sun never really shone in the old Southwest. Except for a gusty, artful performance by Actor Huston-the last before his death in April-The Furies is notable only as a sample of what Zane Grey might have done if he had tried...
...face of this optimism, some Wall Streeters wondered if the market might not have oversold its pessimism. Investors had not paid much attention to record profits in the last two years, because a large percentage of the profit went for company expansion instead of dividends. Now, as expansion programs were completed, more & more companies were boosting their dividends. And rising dividends, as Barren's financial weekly pointed out, "are hardly the hallmark of a deep depression...
...seems to me that . . . Dr. Will Menninger's campaign to sell a regrettably oversold psychiatry to the U.S. public might better have won the story a Business head rather than Medicine...
Friendly Erosion. Erosion is another menace that Dr. Kellogg thinks has been oversold. Some soils erode badly, he says, but others do not, even on steep, long-cultivated slopes. Great gullies cutting through a field destroy its value, but gradual erosion does little harm and may even be beneficial. When the topsoil washes gradually away, the subsoil may turn into topsoil with renewed fertility. "Much [erosion]," says Dr. Kellogg, "is a perfectly normal concomitant of mountain building and wearing down ... An important part is essential to the formation of productive soils. One cannot, or should not, try to stop erosion...