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...life. Unless she can recover completely, Cary must never know what became of her. She disappears into a settlement house to devote her shattered life to teaching music to underprivileged children. Even those who adore youngsters blindly may wince at the subsequent digression into a joyous interracial sea of gap-toothed, freckled faces, cutely squalling songs off-key-the sort of kiddies' night program that could break up a P.T.A. meeting. When Cary and Deborah at last clinch again on Christmas Day, it is a miracle that the juvenile choir does not burst in shrieking Away in a Manger...
SOVIET PRODUCTION is increasing by 9.9% a year v. 4.4% for U.S., says House-Senate Joint Economic Committee. But gap between two countries is actually widening because U.S. advances are figured on much bigger base, and rate of Soviet increase is slowing down. Committee figures that Soviet industry is one-third size of U.S. industry, mostly because Soviet production of consumer goods is far lower...
...fill the gap left by the Navaho, North American pins its hopes on a trio of new planes on the drawing boards. In competition with Boeing, North American designers are at work on the WS-110 chemical-fuel bomber planned as a supersonic successor to the B-52 heavy bomber. It has also won the design competition for a new long-range interceptor and is working on a jet utility trainer that may also find a civilian market as a high-speed executive transport. Said a top North American executive: "We were disappointed, naturally, but we don't have...
...executives were workers in an experiment designed to bridge the gap between the practical world of U.S. business and the world of philosophical ideas. "Whether it's so or not," says Montgomery Ward's President John Barr, "every executive thinks that he does not do enough thinking." To give U.S. executives a chance to think and talk in a relaxed atmosphere. Container Corp. of America Chairman Walter Paepcke, 61, in 1950 set up the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, a nonprofit foundation that runs living quarters, executive seminars, a new health center, and a spate of lectures, forums...
Author Ward's most astute observation is that the West may not be able to export the idea of individual dignity and freedom without the Judaeo-Christian metaphysics to which it is linked. She gingerly hopes that a deistic, syncretistic "perennial philosophy" may fill the gap...