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...goods and labor within a competitive market large enough to support and encourage mass production. If other countries absorbed these principles, their economic progress might begin to match that of the U.S., which is still moving ahead much faster than other nations, still widening the frustrating and envy-breeding gap that makes the success of U.S. capitalism a liability as well as an asset in the Cold...
Princeton, employing a tight man-to-man defense, got off to a strong start, and led by 16 points at the mid-point of the first half. The varsity closed the gap to 34-26 at the half, and trailed 51-48 when the Tigers began their final spurt. A Princeton freeze in the final minutes killed any hopes of a Crimson...
...other places in the Makapan valley traces of many later humans have come to light-from shambling Neanderthal man down to the modern Bantu. The stone tools, says Professor Dart, filled the last gap. Their discovery "may place within our grasp in a single South African valley a continuous story of human handiwork . . . from the dawn of the Pleistocene to the present...
...Tools at Work. As the jobless totals rose, other fiscal tools were brought into action. Not only did $2 billion in unemployment-insurance payments help fill the gap in wages, but there was a step-up of $700 million in Social Security payments. The Federal Reserve Board eased credit by cutting bank-reserve requirements and the discount rate at which banks borrow from the Federal Reserve. The Administration also wisely abandoned, at least temporarily, its determination to balance the budget, prepared to accept a $4.7 billion deficit in the current fiscal year. With its new housing law, which cut down...
After two years in office, the Eisenhower Administration has failed to plug the yawning gap in its foreign policy?the place where history, logic, opportunity and the poverty of the world cry out for U.S. leadership on a free worldwide front of economic advance. In the year's closing months, the President, despite strong opposition in his own Cabinet, seemed to be moving toward a positive policy for liberalized world trade and stimulated production. Dulles favors such a program. But he has been too busy with the international politics of his job to give it his own leadership...