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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Century Convocation on the Social Implications of Scientific Progress winds up at 11 a.m. today with the inauguration of James Rhyne Killian, Jr. as the tenth president of the Institute...
Churchill opened his address by tracing the course of world history during the first half of the twentieth century. He pointed to the confidence that marked its opening years, and said that while "on the whole I remain an optimist," mankind's failure to keep up with scientific progress has subjected it to terrible dangers. "The scale of events around (man) assumed gigantic proportions while he remained about the same size. By comparison therefore he actually became much smaller. . . . The need was to discipline an array of gigantic and turbulent facts. To this task we have certainly so far proved...
...examining the Russian Revolution, Michael Karpovich, professor of History, pointed out the importance of the first World War on the progress of the Soviet outbreak. The failure of the Czarist regime in 1917, he stated, gave the Bolsheviks an unparalleled opportunity for successful revolt...
Said Sir Stafford's report: "1948 was a year of great and steady progress." Britain is now paying with exports for 90% of her imports. She had reduced her overall trade deficit from ?630 million in 1947 to ?120 million. At year's end, she actually had a small surplus on hand, though, the report warned, it was not certain that the surplus had "come to stay." Within these overall trade figures, however, was Britain's trade with the dollar countries and her chronic dollar shortage. This problem '-Britain's most urgent-had also been...
...imply that scientific progress is the highest goal of Man," Compton said. "High wages and low prices are not fundamental bases of human happiness." Ultimate human happiness must reside in the spirtual realm, based on sympathy, morality, and religion...