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...regret to note that TIME classifies President Kennedy as unqualified to deal with the present economic hurricane both from a standpoint of training and temperament. President John Kennedy was no more responsible for the shake-out than a Swiss yodeler is for bringing down an avalanche. Economists knew it was there. They were simply afraid they might start it moving...
...critics have quite a few arguments left: examinations create arbitrary divisions between bodies of knowledge; they encourage students to cram in a hurry and forget equally rapidly. But given the practical advantages of examinations under the present educational system, one doubts that these criticisms will prevail. From a pragmatic standpoint, one can only ask: given examinations, how can they be made more tolerable? Or one can take a radical approach and inquire whether the entire system should be changed...
From the System's standpoint, the arrangement could not be better. Exults one G.M. director, Morgan Guaranty Trust Chairman Henry Clay Alexander: "There's no sense of jealousy, never a question as to who goes through the door first or who sits at the head of the table." In the Detroit board room, in fact, Donner and Gordon sit side by side at the head of the table-with Donner presiding...
President Pusey said that long-range expansion by more than 500 was not possible from a practical standpoint...
...before you know it we are in 1984, with Caroline coming up fast and John F. Jr. just behind her." New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond, while noting in a graver vein that dynasties have never had much appeal for U.S. voters, added that "from the standpoint of future Presidential elections, there is just about the right age difference among the Kennedy brothers." Reaching back into history, the Philadelphia Bulletin discussed the dynastic problems of Napoleon Bonaparte, who "had four brothers and three sisters to cope with," but coyly added that "it would be silly, of course, to compare...