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...assistance to the needy often causes unpleasant side effects. The welfare state means new security for the millions who do not share the nation's affluence. But it also means public intervention in private lives, job-shirking relief chiselers who loaf at government expense, and tax burdens that soar higher every year. Can the side effects be nullified without crimping the cure? Last week one city answered with a resounding yes -and in the process, Newburgh, N.Y., gave the nation cause for some sober second thoughts on the use-and misuse-of civil charity...
Businessmen who have wondered when -if ever-those "Soaring Sixties" would finally begin to soar got a bullish answer last week from Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon. Said Dillon: ''It is probable that by this time next year, our economy will be in high gear. We may well be in the midst of an economic boom...
Pole Vault. Olympic Champion Don Bragg has a new world mark to shoot at. Oklahoma State's George Davies bettered Bragg's record by a full inch with a 15-ft. 10¼-in. performance last month in Boulder, Colo. Both men are sure to soar still higher...
...Rocket Belt, is still uncertain about its military value on earth, but Bell spokesmen see a grand future for it when the U.S. has colonized the moon, where gravitation has only one-sixth of its strength on earth. By releasing a few bursts of steam, rocket-belted colonists will soar easily over the moon's scratchy topography. In fact, a Bell man cautioned, they will have to be careful not to send themselves accidentally into lunar orbit...
...Education. Though they may have entered the Navy with a sketchy scientific schooling, Rickover's recruits soar in his rarefied atmosphere. "I had the best math teachers in the world," gloats one sailor. "It's like getting a $20,000 education," says another. The most impressive result is a new willingness to keep studying after graduation. On the Polaris sub George Washington, for example, sailors will soon attend classes in everything from calculus to computers, recently took a Harvard extension course using kinescoped TV lectures by Historian Crane Brinton...