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Even this grisly story is lightened by comic touches. Charley's family gathers gloomily around the radio and hears Gabriel Heatter, the doom-laden commentator, warn "of dreaded pyorrhea." On another occasion, Charley, in adolescent bravado, adds "the suicide caper to his repertoire of small talk, using it to fascinate women." Alas, it only bores them. As a companion piece to Factory, the story sharply emphasizes Sheed's overall theme: the harmful consequences of clutching at visions of the past, whether they are mythical but life-sustaining visions like Jimmy's or real but death-dealing ones...
Absence of Inhibitions. One of those who feel that some undesirable attitudes may be learned on the job and cannot be predicted by testing is Investigator Jay Dixon, who screens applicants for the Seattle Police Department. "Psychologists warn us that prejudice is learned," Dixon says. "Put a man in the central Negro area and after he's been called names and spit at, he'll be prejudiced." A City University of New York sociologist, Arthur Neiderhoifer, agrees that the very nature of a cop's duties tends to "transform him into an authoritarian agent of control." Neiderhoffer...
...Monroney has chosen to be an expert rather than a force. His efforts to reorganize Congress have largely gone by the board. He is chairman of the Senate's Post Of fice and Civil Service Committee and is known as "Mr. Aviation" because of his continued-and unheeded-warn ings about America's crowded sky. Intelligent and hardworking, he is the quiet antithesis of Oklahoma's flamboyant king of the Senate, the late Bob Kerr. Yet back in the Sooner State, it was Kerr who took the stump to save Monroney's 1962 re-election...
...reports TIME Correspondent William Forbis, it faces an internal crisis that is both spiritual and political, partly because it contains outspoken extremes of rebellion and reaction. A vociferous, militant minority of radical priests, prelates and laymen argue that the church must embrace revolution, even Marxism, to survive. Traditionalist bishops warn that Christian support of social upheaval would bring on Communist dictatorships, and with it the death of the church...
These flights, the report stresses, should provide vast new knowledge about the solar system, the origin and evolution of life, and the processes that govern the earth's interior, surface and atmosphere. But the scientists warn that planning must begin years ahead of any actual mission. Thus, they conclude, "decisions arrived at this year and next will go far in determining the future character and scope of planetary programs...