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Throughout 20th century U.S. history, the party out of White House power has gained congressional seats in off-year elections. The exception was in 1934-when a Democratic President had a Great Depression working for him, not unfulfilled promises to cure a mild recession working against him. In 1962 there is every likelihood that state and local issues-ranging from personalities to bond issues for new sewer districts-will weigh heavily in the election results. But there is one issue that should be local everywhere: how to get the U.S. moving again, as swiftly as all Americans would like...
...University of Pittsburgh and one of the nation's top testmakers, e.g., his nonprofit American Institute for Research tests prospective pilots for U.S. and foreign airlines. Experience has persuaded him that thousands of Americans are miscast in wrong careers, and so he is busy with a far-reaching cure: Project TALENT, "the first scientifically planned national inventory of human talents...
...cure juvenile delinquency is to ask bad apples why they have worms. So argues Psychologist Charles W. Slack, who came upon the method accidentally in a Harvard project started four years ago called Streetcorner Research. Originally, he set up shop in a Cambridge storefront and paid young punks to talk their troubles into a tape recorder to find out what made them tick. In the process, he discovered to his surprise that they talk their troubles out: the crime rate among Slack's subjects has fallen by half...
...famous people, including Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay, are reading his poetry-he notes their verdict, "that I can do a lot if I don't give up and write advertisements." He is also reading and talking prodigiously, beginning to drink, and looking for "a permanent cure for the irrational side of my unhappiness...
...Wild Beasts. The cure does not come easily. Graduated and living in New York, he wavers between thoughts of suicide and huge, gusty waves of euphoria in which he imagines playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the top of an empty skyscraper "with all New York about 600 feet below you . . . With joy speaking over them: O ye millions, I embrace you . . . I kiss all the world . . . and all mankind shall be as brothers beneath thy tender and wide wings...