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...interested in your review of our present economic soothsayers. I suspect that all societies move in a spiral. They come around to the same point on a vertical line, but on a slightly higher plane. Just as the tribal chief has his witch doctors for ritual consultation, so an Eisenhower has his Burns and our chief of state now has a Heller. J. L. MARSHALL Dallas...
...Blough, Columbia University: Assuming that heavy unemployment does not initiate a downward spiral, I would expect business activity to start to rise soon. But I do not see signs of the strong demand needed to stimulate vigorous growth...
...Russians separated a "guided space rocket" from the main body of their sputnik, and pointed it in the correct direction, presumably by discharging small rockets or gas-jets. When it reached the preselected point on its orbit, the main rocket fired, contributing additional push that made the station spiral away from the earth and curve inward toward the sun and the orbit of Venus (see diagram...
...report also discounts the widely held belief that steel settlements are a major factor in pushing the wage-price spiral higher. Steel settlements in the postwar years were a part of the prevailing wage-price push but not necessarily the first cause in each new round. Even though finished-steel-product prices from 1947 to 1959 rose 109% v. only some 30% for consumer prices, Livernash hypothesizes that if steel prices had risen only as much as overall prices, the consumer price jump would have been slowed by a mere 2.4% through...
...married Sarah Herman, another acting-school classmate. Failing to get work in the theater, they lived on unemployment insurance and on his odd jobs-social director at a Florida hotel, Arthur Murray dance instructor, Los Angeles cabbie (three rear-end collisions in four weeks). What started the Berman spiral upward was a job with Chicago's talented, improvising Compass Players (TIME, March 21), where, alongside his friends Mike Nichols and Elaine May, he developed his own style of comedy and began to grow into a great performer. He loathes being compared to other comedians, particularly the "sick" ones. Says...