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Pittsburgh's steel tycoons-having razed slums, banished smog, tamed rivers, and put up a great medical center-paused seven years ago to mull over the stagnant University of Pittsburgh. The verdict: Pitt was a "trolley-car school" saved from obscurity only by a renowned football team and a bizarre 42-story Gothic skyscraper called the Cathedral of Learning. To revive Pitt, the tycoons resolved to spend $100 million, and to get the job done they hired as chancellor Edward H. Litchfield, who predicted that Pitt would soon emerge as "one of the world's greatest institutions." Pitt...
Needed: More Exports. Despite such general confidence, most foreigners can see plenty of room for improvement in the state of U.S. business. Few go so far as Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal, who fortnight ago described the U.S. economy as "stagnant." But a majority is concerned over the fact that the rate of U.S. economic growth was only 2% last year v. an average 6% for the Common Market nations. To a man, foreign businessmen think that the U.S. should be expanding much faster economically-and many say that tax cuts would be a good way to spur expansion. Some argue...
...Much Stability? Despite the dubious quality of this year's economic "records," the U.S. economy is still far from stagnant. But some economists fear that the drive to level off the peaks of boom and the valleys of recession-a drive started under Eisenhower and continued by Kennedy-has been overly successful, and that the U.S. has sacrificed too much growth for stability. (During the 1960 campaign, Kennedy used to argue that way.) One way to stir faster expansion is to encourage increased corporate spending by means of a tax cut. But pessimists hold that if the President waits...
Chaos & Coups. The aim of General Cemal Gursel's coup had been to eliminate financial chaos and corruption, invigorate the stagnant economy, restore political liberty. While the ghost of the hanged Menderes still haunted the nation, the army returned the country to civilian rule last October and sponsored parliamentary elections that made Gursel President, but failed to provide a stable majority to enact essential reforms. The result is a freakish two-party coalition government that joins the army-favored Republican People's Party of Premier Ismet Inonu with its archenemies, the political heirs of Menderes gathered...
Worse, the city's schools have been left stagnant by a middle-class migration to private schools as well as the suburbs. One recent study showed that some city schools are still using 1933 history books and 1935 science books. New York City employs more teachers than any of 43 states; yet many suburbs have twice as many teachers per 1,000 students. And an influx of less "academically talented" Negroes and Puerto Ricans has made much city teaching more custodial than academic. While suburban teachers tinker with exciting experiments, city teachers grapple with remedial reading and "toilet patrol...