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...wells; other companies piped huge amounts to the Pacific Northwest, Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Los Alamos. Oil company pipelines sent 120,000 bbls. of oil daily to the West Coast and Texas Gulf refineries from some 750 wells in the area. With great finds in San Juan and Paradox Basin, oilmen counted 300 new gas wells put down in the first half of 1958. They expect another 300 before the year...
Educate Everybody. The report describes the other jaw of the paradox-that although a necessarily complex society often breeds mediocrity, it desperately needs brilliant performance. The U.S.'s need of top-level scientists and highly skilled teachers is obvious now, the authors note. The only occupation for which the need can be counted on not to increase is that of the unskilled laborer, who will be replaced, to some extent at least, by self-tended machines. The schools and colleges must train more people-the U.S. population is expected to grow 55 million by 1975-and, the report warns...
Nevertheless, the force which in the final analysis guides every life at Putney is the pressure of the community. The major paradox which the school faces is that any encouragement to think and act as an individual is balanced and sometimes negated by the ever-present collective opinion, with its subtle demand to conform. Although the problem of conformity is probably far smaller at Putney than at most schools, it is still not eliminated...
Cartoons range from Disney's Donald Duck to Her block's political satires. Thurber's cartoons lie very close in essence to the "pure cartoon"--the self sufficient line drawing to which words are contingent accidents. These unadulterated pictures resemble poetry in use of paradox and irony, subtle imagery and wit. They live through a juxtaposition of incongruities, an analogous inversion of the natural order of the universe, and dexterous development of symbolism...
...show trends and changes in the U.S. labor force. Of the overall 2,316,000 jump in unemployment to 5,198,000 since March 1957, more than 1,000,000 came in such big durable-goods producers as autos, aircraft, heavy machinery and steel. The curious fact-and the paradox of the recession-is that other industries, such as wholesale and retail, banks, services (up more than 100,000), real estate and insurance firms, are still booming ahead. In March, employment rose by 323,000 over February, bringing total employment to 62.3 million, the third highest March in history...