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These surveys seem accurate. They were, however, conducted independently and are being analyzed without the aid of consulting educators and psychologists. This is unfortunate, for without the assistance of any such "dignified" group, the survey results may shortly become merely interesting phenomena. Instead, the results can serve as proof that television can educate as well as entertain. They can act as immediate evidence in indicting television for ignoring this responsibility to educate, and for even misusing its power with consequent harmful effects...
Works of the Law. Yet it was the phenomena of bigness which stirred up the major business argument of the year and brought an all-out attack by the Department of Justice. No longer, as in Trustbusting Teddy Roosevelt's day, was the cry made that bigness and monopoly forced high prices on the consumer. Instead, cheaper prices and greater efficiency seemed to be grounds for prosecution. In trying to break up the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. into seven separate grocery chains, the U.S. complained that A. & P. failed to mark up prices the normal amount. There...
This week Albert Einstein announced what might be the most important scientific news in many decades: he had developed a new "Generalized Theory of Gravitation" which attempts to interrelate all known physical phenomena. The full theory, will be published in February by Princeton University Press in the third edition of Einstein's The Meaning of Relativity. But the heart of the theory is contained in four equations...
From an experiment, Princeton's unique club system has passed through the stages of phenomena and faddish, and now must prove itself an asset to the college as well as institution...
Adenauer belongs in the ranks of Europe's Christian Democratic politicians, whose emergence to leadership in the West is one of the Continent's striking postwar phenomena. His Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), together with its political counterparts in Italy, France, Belgium and The Netherlands, may well prove to be the force to stem the assault of Communism and to bring about Europe's regeneration. He states his political credo simply: "Germany can be reconstructed on a sound basis only if she declares herself wholeheartedly for the Christian world of the West and all it stands...