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...this reason, the Scholastic Aptitude Test, which was a boon to overworked admissions officers also threatened to create a relatively narrow definition of excellence; it was the attraction of simplification and the hazard of limiting diversity by over-emphasizing test scores that led a former Dean of Admissions to warn against "the tyranny of little numbers...
Heightening the feeling of unrest is the fact that the economy, despite prosperity, is turning sluggish. In the first six months of 1961, Britain lost $460 million in gold and currency, and economists warn that if the country is to support itself, exports must rise 10% per year over the next four years; the predicted rise for 1962 is only 4%. To make Britain's industry more competitive for foreign markets, the government instituted a "pay pause" for Britain's state-employed workers. Reason: in the first half of 1961, production rose only 2%, while wages jumped...
...Reporter Salisbury ended, the Times itself felt it necessary to warn readers in an editorial against "wishful thinking" about Moscow's intentions: "Premier Khrushchev may well be anxious to avoid a nuclear war as long as the West is strong enough to meet a Soviet attack with retaliatory nuclear annihilation . . . But this does not necessarily mean real peace. 'Peaceful coexistence' may be nothing more than a way of waging all but nuclear war to assure a Communist world triumph...
...could hear what has happened to his schöne, weltbekannte melody, Papa Liszt no doubt would be writhing, not twisting. And he would have plenty of company-solid German doctors who warn against "accelerating one's hips and legs in opposite directions," parents and churchmen who deplore "the overt sexual implications of the dance." But some German intellectuals defend the twist. It is, says one Munich psychiatrist, "a proper cure for working off frustrations." And a psychiatrist in Berlin, where the cold war takes the rap for all sorts of aberrations, sees it as a byproduct...
...downs, but even in the modern age of science, millions of otherwise rational people believe that the motions of the planets have profound control over human affairs. So many people try to read the future from the stars that even the Vatican weekly, Osservatore della Domenica, was moved to warn that serious belief in astrology is a "grave sin." The astrological faithful attach special importance to conjunctions,* which bring two or more planets close together. On the rare occasions when all seven huddle close, astrologers believe (or say they believe) that the end of the world is near...