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Growing Chinks. Despite the lengthening shadows cast by Viet Nam, Johnson's report on the state of the nation should be sanguine indeed. The economy is not only good but sensational-a fact underscored by the stock market's confident thrust toward the 1,000-point mark in the Dow-Jones industrial average and by the gross national product's one-year surge of $34 billion to an estimated level of $675 billion. Unemployment has practically reached such a rock bottom-at 4.1%, it is the lowest in more than eight years. The great American middle class...
Lowell, with its own courts, is in a particularly fine position; everyone on the "A" team is undefeated, and the "B" team has dropped only one match if Lowell's other teams keep winning, the House will be in a good position for a final thrust at the Straus Trophy in the Spring...
...also borrowed from the Renaissance by erecting one dramatic vertical building to offset the massive horizontal thrust of the plan. But in raising the 28-story administration building as a sort of campanile, he also made it a showcase for structural technology. Since Netsch could take advantage of the decreasing loads the columns had to bear as the building rose, he was able to widen the floors toward the top without thickening the supports...
With a federal grant, the University of Michigan's English Professor Daniel Fader has devised a special English course for Maxey boys. Arguing that "no hardbound text was ever thrust into a boy's hip pocket," he has thrown out such books, replaced them with paperbacks ranging from James Bond to Erich Fromm. When he first arrives at the school, each boy can select two from drugstore-type racks, keep them or exchange them with other boys -and no one tries to keep track of them. Fader also advises constant practice in writing. Boys are encouraged to keep...
...Whole Economy. The thrust of Keynes's personality, however strong, was vastly less important than the force of his ideas. Those ideas were so original and persuasive that Keynes now ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx as one of history's most significant economists. Today his theses are the basis of economic policies in Britain, Canada, Australia and part of Continental Europe, as well...