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...bullfighter, he knows Tom's character and keeps it consistent. The diary and the novel end with Tom planning to run out on both his women and his son, but Author Calet explodes no moral dynamite under him. He seems to hope that son Paul will make a sounder job of his life, but he makes no predictions...
Continuous Improvement. In this harness, said the President, U.S. policy will not be based on the philosophy of preparing for war by,any certain year of maximum exposure, "but will be based on the sounder theory that a very real danger not only exists this year but may continue to exist for years to come; that our strength, which is already very real, must now be made stronger, not by inefficient and expensive starts and stops, but by steady, continuous improvement." Under this "new, fresh" policy, the "old misleading labels" would be changed, the "paper divisions and cardboard wings" disregarded...
...Eisenhower Administration this week took its first major step to reverse the New Deal-Fair Deal "cheap money" policies and put the national debt on a sounder, long-term basis. On sale went a new issue of government bonds, with the highest interest rate (3¼%) since 1933, and the longest-term maturity (30 years) since the beginning of World War II. It was also the first long-term issue in 20 years to be floated in an "unpegged" market, i.e., the Federal Reserve is not committed to support the bonds at any fixed price. With the new $2 billion...
Author Kennedy's aim, it seems, is to warn Americans that neither sex nor success is the big thing in life. He suggests that Mollie, in her concern for nonprofit community centers, is on a much sounder tack than Bart. But these didactic reflections should not seriously interfere with the sale of the book, either in hard covers or in the inevitable paperback reprints...
...years that I have been reading TIME, I do not remember an article that has pleased me more . . . It is good when journalists try to achieve an orientation that will make their presentation of facts sounder and their comments on events saner. However, it seems to me that the attack on Gnosticism is beside the point . . . In all matters that have to do with human beings we must get away from notions of absolutes, first of all, because they do not exist and, secondly, because they are used as brakes on human experience and progress . . . Such things as human rights...