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Soap-Bubble Systems. Since 1946, U.S. economics has undergone some pervasive changes. The spiritual parent of these transformations was Columbia University's Professor Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874-1948), whose treatise, Business Cycles, is widely regarded as the most important of all U.S. contributions to economics. Mitchell was the "prophet of facts and figures." In his youth he studied economics and philosophy, and he noticed in both a common tendency to "spin speculations by the yard," build up "grand systems like soap bubbles." Mitchell insisted that what economics needed was more facts. To that end he founded...
...despot of Soviet biological science, proclaiming his fantastic dogma that Communists could change nature at will. Riding high, he terrorized his rivals, shipping to prison or disgrace all Soviet biologists who defended the orthodox axiom that basic traits are transmitted by genes that cannot be changed by training the parent organism. Lysenko's dictatorship died with Stalin. But now Lysenko is back in bloom, not as a declaimer of dogmas, since Nikita Khrushchev does not care much about that, but as a preacher of the kind of husbandry that Khrushchev hopes will whip up the country's badly...
Five years old, commercial color TV seems at last to have established some sort of beachhead on the American economy, with a long way still to go. Since CBS has all but dropped its color programing, NBC has developed the field essentially alone, with its parent company RCA manufacturing all the color picture tubes sold in the U.S. Until recently, color was a loss leader for RCA, but in his year-end report last month Board Chairman General David Sarnoff cozily if vaguely mentioned color profits "in seven figures," and said that RCA color "has achieved the status...
...Student Council now involves undergraduates--250 in the Combined Charities, 120 other non-members on various sub-committees--all going in any number of directions, one of them holding the same view on what the parent organization is or ought to be doing. Amid certain worthwhile endeavors and a slight but nonetheless discernible increase in student interest, the Council still fails to an identity, to define the extent of a domain. The Council has failed to arrow down the large and much too catch-all called "the purpose of the Harvard Student Council." As Howard J. Phillips '62, recently rejected...
...unpublicized way, with all of the advantages of non-sensational, off-the-record coercion. Several students are like a former Freshman Council leader who prefers to work on sub-committees and concentrate on specific areas but who has very little desire to run for a seat on the parent organization...