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CONSUMER SPENDING. "The conditions are there for a further take-off in consumption," says Heller. Personal income is at a record of $2,000 per capita after taxes, and last year consumers added $20 billion to their liquid assets. But the Federal Reserve Board's quarterly survey of consumer buying intentions shows marked drops from early-1960 levels in plans to buy durable goods...
...happened, except that a time came when Aldous did not feel aldous any more; he felt thomas-henry. And old T. H. Huxley, the novelist's grandfather, was a solemn teacher, not a satirist. The result was that after the aldous Aldous had written Brave New World (a take-off on the sleek horrors of a mass-produced society), the new thomas-henrified Huxley deemed it his duty to map out a utopia for the betterment of the race...
Rumors that the next production would be a take-off on Phil 1 with President Pusey playing Immanuel Kant and David Riesman as Socrates could not be substantiated...
...decision to have each of the three scenes introduced by movie projections on a lowered screen effectively points up the satirical aspect of the play. There are crazy title credits worthy of Saul Bass, a flower-watering take-off on the silent cinema, and even a cross-eyed Mona Lisa. Approoutset with a Weillanously blasphemous parody of priate background music has been concocted by Robert Prince, who strikes the right note at the Rossini's Stabat Mater (which is, indeed, blasphemous even in the original), and later summons up remembrances or Mendelssohn's Spring Song and the concluding fanfare...
...certain hours; in Montreal and London, no jet flights move between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. But appeasing the neighborhood complainers can add to the pilot's problems. At Idlewild, for example, planes using Runway 31-Left are ordered to climb sharply and turn sharp left seconds after take-off to avoid passing over populous Jamaica-which is exactly the procedure followed by the American Airlines jet that crashed into Jamaica Bay (see SCIENCE...