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...many a U.S. businessman and economist, one of the touchiest questions of 1958 is: Has the recession thrown a serious chill into the American consumer's mood of sunny, open-pocketed optimism? For a while last winter and early spring, it appeared that the recession indeed had, as autos, appliances and many other consumer hard goods turned down. Last week, in a report that was as heartening as it was authoritative, the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, often called upon to test consumer attitudes for the Federal Reserve Board, reported that beneath the consumer...
PERHAPS the touchiest and most taboo-ridden major problem facing big-city governments in the U.S. is the high crime rate among Negroes. Probing into the subject, TIME correspondents found city politicians evasive, police officials wary, Negro leaders defensive. But as the facts piled up, it was plain that the curtain of evasion conceals a social illness of disturbing scope. For a report on the problem and its causes, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Negro Crime Rate: A Failure in Integration...
...Probe a 1955 Protestant, and in altogether too many cases you will find him 'touchiest' on the subject of Roman Catholicism. After 435 years, the alarm bells still ring most wildly and the panic flags still flutter most furiously when Rome is mentioned. Not all of this response is neurotic anxiety, of course. It was Rome with whom the Reformers broke; she is the ancient foe; her truth still challenges ours . . . Yet the ferocity of some anti-Roman Catholicism this month will have more behind it than any of this. There is a neurotic Protestant anxiety about Rome...
...answer to an important politic puzzle of the of the present Administration can be found in the office of the Attorney-General of the United States. It concerns the touchiest of domestic issue, internal Communism, and the keenest political mind in the Eisenhower cabinet, Herbert Brownell, Jr. The puzzle involves making sense out Brownell's perambulating policy on the Communist issue--from his charge that former President Truman knowingly promoted a Russian spy, to his more recent participation in the Administration's attempt to undermine the influence of senator McCarthy...
...troop of villains: the unseen devils of the air that claw at the untried plane, shake it, spin it, hammer it, try to tear it to ribbons. Some tests are extra tense. The maiden flight of the X-3 a few months ago was one of the touchiest in aviation history. The pilot: Bill Bridgeman, a husky, clear-eyed airman who had already flown faster (1,238 m.p.h.) and higher (79,494 ft.) than any other...