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ALDOUS HUXLEY once wrote that "good printing can create a valuable spiritual state in the reader." While we consider this more a thought to ponder than a principle to prove, TIME this week makes a major change in the interest of good printing. For the first time since early in TIME'S 40-year history, we have changed the magazine's body type-the type in which most of the editorial content is printed. Until this week, most of our columns have been printed in a variation of a type somewhat inappropriately called Old Style. Beginning with this...
Picking up Khrushchev's borrowed words, any Cuban could well ponder whether this form of government had become destructive...
...plan for space communications soon after Sputnik went up-and launched Telstar last year. Working on the theory that "1970 starts today," General Electric has set up a colony of 300 planners-one of the largest groups anywhere-by the ocean at Santa Barbara, Calif., where they ponder everything from long-range prospects for the Japanese economy to the competition in education between the U.S. and Russia. Noting that U.S. consumers are spending increasing portions of their rising personal incomes on medical care, G.E. vice presidents are pondering whether their company should expand its hospital-systems supply business...
Jung notes that nothing is a clearer symbol of peevish authority than a customs inspector-but that is only half the dream. Readers who respect the power of a pun are free to ponder which of his customs Jung didn't want Freud inspecting, and as far as Jung's critics are concerned, that is the heart of the matter. For how else account for a man whose method in science was often to find enlightenment in a dream, pronounce the dream a hypothesis, then dream it ten times over again, and announce the establishment of a theory...
...dreamer of age-old dreams led him into a mystic world. His life was plagued by occult phenomena (poltergeists threw his books about; blinding pain awakened him at the instant a patient was committing suicide), and his dreams even came to include flying saucers. In the morning he would ponder: perhaps the flying saucer is a magic lantern, and I-I am only the picture it projects...