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...chief executive of A.T.&T. is automatically the biggest businessman in the nation. For eight years that post has been held by a square-cut, thin-lipped man named Frederick Russell Kappel, who happens to be very much like the corporation he heads-a creature of power and paradox. Chairman Kappel (rhymes with apple) mixes freely among the mighty in science, politics and business. The 65 corporate chiefs who make up the prestigious U.S. Business Council, a group that advises the Government, have elected him their chairman. Lyn don Johnson often calls Kappel to discuss the state of U.S. business...
While the President of the U.S. last week toured the Appalachian areas of poverty, bringing attention once more to the fact that unemployment as well as prosperity is a major fact in the land, statistics showed that the paradox of the employment situation is becoming even more pronounced...
...publicity usually given to distinguished speakers at Harvard makes the case of Dr. L. S. B. Leakey a rather strange paradox. Dr. Leakey, a world-famous archaeologist and anthropologist who has devoted his life to the discovery and study of fossil man, delivered a lecture here on the night of April 9th to a packed audience of students as well as a host of prominent anthropologists. Leakey discussed the significance of his recent discovery of a new species of man, Homo habilis, which is older than any other known hominid. His discovery necessitates an important revision of thought about human...
Prices in general have gone up since then, of course, but meat presents a special paradox. While its price has. stayed high, the amount the rancher gets for beef cattle has been falling, is now the lowest since 1956. Last week no less a cattleman-and consumer-than Lyndon Johnson asked Congress to unravel the paradox by appointing a 15-member national commission on food to investigate food prices, particularly those of beef...
...between them and livestock prices, as a starter has ordered more beef served in school lunch programs and more distributed to needy families. Cattlemen meanwhile are taking a traditional step toward the same end: an estimated 2,000,000 head are being held back from market. But a paradox lies here too. Bad weather or economic pinches could force cattlemen to dump the held-back cattle, thus tumbling prices even lower than they...