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...called "Healthy Pleasure Honey." All this hue and cry had no appreciable effect on the birth rate. Soon birth-control advocates found themselves accused of the heinous crime of "neo-Malthusianism," and China's teeming manpower became officially no longer a problem but the nation's greatest asset...
...real asset of teaching machines, of course, and very likely the reason so much money is being spent now on their research and development, is the terrific dearth of teachers in this country. If teaching machines could be run off assembly lines as just another gadget and someday became as common as television sets, the few teachers there are could be liberated from the more ponderous tasks of mechanical instruction they now have to perform, and the dilemma of the teacher shortage could be substantially diminished, if not wiped out entirely...
...bombs. Knowing the pain of Broadway radiation burns (in 1948 he brought Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke into Manhattan after a triumphant three-week road tryout only to see Summer go up in smoke), he has devised a classically simple defense: get out of town. His invaluable asset: a wife named Julie Harris...
...possibilities, the Democrats still held the high ground. In the Senate, simple arithmetic showed that far more Republican-held seats than Democratic were at stake in closely contested states (see box), hence the odds clearly favored an increased Democratic Senate majority. In the House, where incumbency is a decided asset, 26 Republicans had retired for health or other personal reasons, against only six Democrats; in addition, far more Republican seats were seriously challenged than Democratic. In terms of net gains in House or Senate seats, the 1958 elections could still turn out to be a Democratic landslide, though in terms...
Fort Pitt had once been Pennsylvania's top brewer, but a strike had laid it low. Its big asset to Coleman and Siegel was a $1,800,000 loss that could be offset against profits if merged with a profitable company. With $1,500,000 in bank loans, they merged two profitable overcoat companies (owned by Siegel's family) with Fort Pitt, and wound up with control of Fort Pitt...