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Like good government, the special agencies (see chart} are least conspicuous when they are working well. The International Telecommunication Union makes it possible for an American to telephone any one of 81 million telephone subscribers outside the U.S. The World Meteorological Organization gives warnings of storms in Asia, of locust pests in the Middle East; letters and parcels move freely across the continents and oceans because the Universal Postal Union divides the expenses among its 93 member nations...
...famous historian inserted the following notice in the Harvard Crimson: "History 60a. 'Ship Lively' shoves off for the West Indies and parts unknown . . . at 9:15 o'clock in the morning. Crew may obtain a chart of the West Indies by calling at Widener 417." To the crew concerned, the meaning of the notice was abundantly clear. It was simply Samuel Eliot Morison's salty way of telling his students the time and place of their midyear exam...
...cold. Like other materials, however, it loses its magnetism when it gets hot. Therefore, the region near the volcano's white-hot core should be less magnetic than other places a little farther away. Rikitake checked this theory by circling the mountain with his instruments. A chart of the magnetic field also showed the shape of the hot and hidden core...
What has been art's course in the decade since World War II? Future historians may be able to chart it neatly. Contemporaries cannot, for most art of any age is chaff which only the winds of time winnow away. But by the same token, the living can see more of today's art, good and bad. than future historians ever will. Last week the work of close to a thousand postwar artists was on view in New York City alone. The spring downpour of big survey exhibitions offered a new and broad perspective of contemporary...
About 3% of U.S. taxpayers earn $10,000 or more a year. Yet this small slice of the tax economy carries 36% of the nation's income-tax burden (see chart). Some high-salaried executives, C.E.D. suggests, have lost incentive because "what is left after taxes is not worth the effort." The C.E.D. thinks that "high rates of taxes make it more difficult for the individual to accumulate funds for investment, thus penalizing small business, [which] ordinarily can make use of outside financing only at excessive cost . . . The objective of this type of reduction would be to stimulate investment...