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...University of California's perennially strong debate team will oppose the Debate Council Monday on the topic: "Resolved, That the Christian concept of the family does not meet present day social needs." The discussion will take place at 3:15 p.m. in the Junior Common Room of Dunster House...
More Tax Money Too. The concept of the expanding U.S. economy was sound economic doctrine. But Harry Truman also used it for political advantage. By prophesying ever-higher national output, the President was also prophesying ever-higher federal revenues to balance the budget and pay for the Fair Deal's expanding welfare programs. It was one thing to hope for higher revenues; it was another to depend wholly on it, while the Government jeopardized the prospect by spending, year after year, beyond its means (see below). The President's economic advisers estimated that the Fair Deal...
...Tidy Concept. The campus radical became a radical young instructor in economics; he went from two years of study at Columbia and another at Harvard to teaching jobs at the University of Illinois, Reed College in Portland, Ore., the University of Washington, finally at 28 moved on to the University of Chicago. "Paul's head was working all the time," a friend of those days remembers, "and so was his conscience...
...then the undergraduate's vague, radical dreams had hardened into a tidy-too tidy-concept of a perfect economic order. It was a sort of classroom socialism that Douglas developed: an equitable system of distribution, a wage scale tied to living costs, government moving in on business when it grew too large. He became a brilliant teacher, and a popular...
...common denominator is a simplicity forced by economy, since, as the FORUM points out, "the church of the future . . . will have to be regarded as expendable. New York is currently witnessing the impact of present-day economy on the traditional concept of the church: the dramatic demolition of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, which Frank Lloyd Wright declared the finest in New York. Located on one of Fifth Avenue's costliest and most coveted corners [48th Street], it will make way for an office building...