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Some of the alarmists who see every act of dishonesty as a symptom of general corruption make the mistake of judging people by Utopian rather than human standards. A spark of larceny leaps in everyone, and the scene would be dull without it. Nor is the evidence about dishonesty clear...
Freud dealt with noise irritation as a symptom of anxiety neurosis "undoubtedly explicable on the basis of the close inborn connection between auditory impressions and fright." But Freud did not live in a modern apartment. People who do are subject to what Columbia University Urban Planner Charles Abrams calls "a new form of trespass, a new invasion of privacy." The Dickensian poor may have had to make a virtue of propinquity, and the Latin races have historically prized it, but the upper middle classes in the U.S. find unwanted intimacy irritating. Unseen, but all too perfectly heard, are domestic strife...
...economy is no longer boiling, it is still hot. One symptom is that prosperous American consumers are buying rising quantities of goods from abroad; by the National Foreign Trade Council's estimate, the U.S. this year will export only $4 billion more merchandise than it will import, the smallest export surplus since 1959. That shrinkage alone could easily hike the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit this year from its $1.3 billion...
These sales add up to only one symptom of a profound change that has overtaken the world's food supply. With the earth's population growing twice as fast as food production, North America and Australia have become the bread basket for more than half the world. The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that per capita food output will actually decline 2% this year and that more than 3,000,000 people will die of malnutrition. This problem has created challenges and opportunities for companies with the talent to help end hunger...
...symptom of the durable opposition to forced integration came last week in Albany. By a 41-to-19 vote, the New York state senate approved a bill that in effect sought to ban bussing. Supporters of the bill called the vote a victory for the "neighborhood school concept." But Brooklyn's Negro Assemblyman Bertram Baker, chairman of the Education Committee, who bottled up a similar bill previously, pronounced that the senate version "does not have a ghost of a chance" of getting to the assembly floor for a vote...