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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Huxley himself supplied the introduction. "A very remarkable work by a very remarkable human being," he wrote. "His influence on the world's thinking is bound to be important . . . He has forced theologians to view their ideas in the new perspective of evolution, and scientists to see the spiritual implications of their knowledge . . . The religiously-minded can no longer turn their backs upon the natural world . . . nor can the materialistically-minded deny importance to spiritual experience and religious feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Toward Omega | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Newly sobered by the payola scandal (see below), the nation's top jocks were acknowledging what everybody has suspected for some time-that their teen-age audience has begun to walk out on them. The popularity of rock 'n' roll began to slack off about a year ago, and stations that once blared Splish Splash, Dream Lover, Hey, Little Girl and High School Sweater have started turning to less frenzied numbers such as Delia Reese's Don't You Know and Johnny Mathis' Misty, plus the effusions of such reformed rockers as Paul Anka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCK 'N1 ROLL: Decline & Fall? | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Columbus who took Lucas' spectacular first week in stride was Lucas himself, who is attending Ohio State on an academic scholarship with no extras thrown in for athletics. "First come my studies," he says, "and then basketball." Lucas maintains an A-minus average (botany, American history, English), can see so far beyond the basketball court that he has no plans to play with the pros. "I think it's a hard life with all that traveling and living in hotels," says Big Luke, as serious as a sophomore can be. "I want to settle down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Luke | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Despite President Eisenhower's call for a swift steel peace (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), management and labor could agree last week only to continue disagreeing. Just before both sides met with federal mediators for the first time since a Taft-Hartley injunction sent the workers back to the plants, the steel industry announced that its earlier offer of 30?-an-hour package spread over three years was its "last offer for a strike settlement." This so incensed Steelworkers President David McDonald that he walked into the meeting heatedly waving a copy of the statement. He repeated union arguments that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: These Mulish Men | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Budget Director Maurice Stans last week decried the "cult of growth," which would spur federal spending, unbalance the budget, and touch off another burst of inflation. But International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson Jr. called for new federal taxation, if necessary, to combat Russian expansion (see State of Business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIAN v. U.S. GROWTH: The Latest International Numbers Game | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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