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Whenever the experts look at inflation, the general assumption is that the cost-price spiral is an economy-wide phenomenon to be blamed on all industry. This assumption, says Professor Charles L. Schultze of Indiana University, is a mistake, and is one reason why the U.S. knows so little about inflation; economists do not study it closely enough. In a report issued last week by the Committee for Economic Development, Economist Schultze goes after the inflation problem industry by industry with prices, cost and output data for each. His conclusion: sharp inflationary pressures in only a few industries were responsible...
...model of DNA's structure worked out by F. H. C. Crick of Cambridge University and J. D. Watson of Harvard, long strands of atoms are coiled together to make a spiral. Pairs of molecules called "nitrogen bases" connect the coils, which unwind in the process of duplication and assemble themselves on new strands. A series of experiments done a year ago at the California Institute of Technology, after which Sueoka patterned his experiments, supports this hypothesis...
Japan has broken this spiral with a vigorous eight year program of birth control. Although it has the greatest population density in Asia, Japan enjoys the highest standard of living and s stable population. Similar programs in India, Communist China, and Pakistan have failed, however, due both to political pressure and lack of public interest. Unless some vigorous program is effected, the fears of the State Department maybe realized; a large, underfed populace provides suitable material for revolution...
Matter of Time. The sun is far out on one of the spiral arms of the galaxy, about 25,000 light-years from its center. Technically, the astronomers can only see what no longer exists, or rather what existed 25,000 years ago, when the radio waves they observe left the galaxy's center. But in cosmological time, 25,000 years is only the blink of an eye, and astronomers, faced with the huge intervals of space, use light-years as simple measures of distance...
...Dutch astronomers found that for 15,000 light-years toward the center, clouds of hydrogen fill the spaces between the stars, revolve around the center with reasonably circular motion. Then, 10,000 light-years out from center, comes a rather dense spiral arm of hydrogen that is moving away from the center at 100,000 m.p.h. Other hydrogen clouds in the vicinity may be moving outward as fast as 400,000 m.p.h...