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...retirements," said Harvard's Professor Sumner Slichter, "occur because the worker wishes to quit. The great majority are at the insistence of the employer or because of ... ill health . . . Adequate pensions cannot be provided at moderate cost if the usual pensions age is as low as 65. Employers and trade unions should face that fact without delay . . . Raising the usual retirement age from 65 to 70 . . . would probably increase by at least a million the number of persons between 65 and 70 years of age who are at work. These persons would add nearly one-sixtieth to the national...
...same conference it happened again. Acting Chairman Sumner Pike said that the successful development of the hydrogen bomb "is right in the laps of the gods . . . The answer to the question about progress will probably be given when one goes bang or doesn't." A few minutes later he estimated the chances of success as "somewhere between probable and possible...
...order to offset Russian victories in the cold war, the United States must greatly increase its production and its imports during the next ten years, Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, claims in the current June issue of the Atlantic Monthly...
...winning the cold war, he continued, it would be purposeless for them to resort to a shooting war. Despite the fact that changing the tide of the cold war might not make the task any easier for our diplomats, he concluded, we obviously cannot continue to lose it.Professor SUMNER H. SLICHTER...
...vets' bonus or any similar Treasury grab - which is obviously designed to get more votes for himself - but our votes . . . will go to the man with guts and integrity enough to advocate a little sensible thinking and economy - even if that economy starts with us ! JAMES A. SUMNER Greeley, Colo...