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...spiral" theory of civilizations, famed British Historian Arnold Toynbee holds that the pressure of outside challenge produces a civilization's strongest response. He also sees psychic and spiritual factors as more potent in history than material ones. Last week, in a Founder's Day address at California's Pomona College, Toynbee brought both tenets to bear on the main issue of his own time...
...remedy the Brown president suggested, "The cure is not subsidy but economic reform in our government that will stop the inflationary spiral before it gets out of hand." Wriston also asked the federal government to establish a definite policy on the student draft...
...other industrial workers would also want their wages evened. Whether it was the end of an era or not, it had all the earmarks of being the real beginning of an inflationary spiral, with wages and prices leaping upwards...
...controls. He declared that "serious shortages of consumer goods will not develop unless they are created artificially." He urged buyers to "refrain from hoarding or avarice," urged producers to practice "restrained pricing," asked labor to avoid "wage demands of a character which might lead to another inflationary spiral...
Supersonic Tips. Even before the jet era, propellers were a headache. When an airplane is in flight, the tips of its propeller blades, describing a spiral through the air, reach supersonic speeds while the airplane itself is still lumbering along far below the speed of sound...