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Said Michael Paulson, business manager of the General Contractors Association: "This will mushroom into the greatest volume of construction our nation has ever experienced. The industry is on the brink of another decade of prosperity...
...Harvard International Seminar will play host this summer as in past years to outstanding representatives from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The members are selected through careful screening, work in many different fields, and are mostly on the brink of assuming positions of real leadership in their countries. Approximately 40 of them will be here...
...percent of U.S. territory to Russian nationals is typical. The President has called for deeds and not words, but the Secretary of State has given forth a stream of words--from "massive retaliation" to "agonizing reappraisal" to "liberation of the satellites" to "the Portuguese province of Goa" to "the brink of war"--which have done far more to frighten our allies and our potential allies than to scare the Soviet Union. The President has asked for close consultation between the U.S. and Britain and France, but the Secretary of State has released the Yalta Papers, announced U.S. Middle Eastern policy...
...science-if it were, "psychoanalysts would ere this have merged into the academic community . . ." Bailey had a final cut for the process of analysis: "Deep psychotherapy is as dangerous as deep surgery. The technique of deep analysis seems to be to lead the patient along the very brink of the abyss, hoping that he will not fall in-something like Dulles' diplomacy." Finally, affirming his own faith that the problem of schizophrenia will be solved by the biochemist, he quoted Boston's late great neurosurgeon Dr. Harvey Gushing: "The task of the psychiatrists is to get back into...
...such guidance has been reserved only for parents' with children under ten. This week, with the publication of Youth: the Years from Ten to Sixteen (Harper; $5.95), Dr. Gesell and his chief collaborators, Frances L. Ilg and Louise Bates Ames, bring the young American through adolescence to the brink of adulthood...