Word: leveled
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Brookings team set up liaison with Clark Clifford, onetime counsel for Harry Truman, representing Kennedy, and Brigadier General Robert E. Cushman Jr., speaking for Nixon. Advised by a 14-man committee headed by former Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, the Brookings team has interviewed some 60 top-level veterans of changeovers. Last week their accumulated wisdom went out to both candidates in the first three of ten memos on the subject. According to Brookings, the President-elect should...
Funeral directors, according to Jubilee, are increasingly substituting for clergymen, "choosing the music (preferably not hymns-too depressing) and thermostatically regulating the level of grief ('empathy is more professional than sympathy'). Sometimes, in their role as priest-substitutes, the more far-out directors run into trouble with the real thing. One we met said, 'Sometimes you run into off-beat ideas from some of these ministers who think that the soul leaves the body and the body is just like a rind that can be thrown away after death.' His reaction to this brush with...
...liberal, articulate P-D is engaged in a circulation fight and it is throwing men, money and even Tangle Town puzzles into the struggle. Concedes Post-Dispatch Business Manager Fred Rowden: "It may not be appealing, but you have to get down and meet the competition on his own level. I've got to admit they're a tough customer...
...forces determined by man, he himself can take control over his fate." Enter birth control. Von Foerster declares that if mankind wants to avoid the doomsday of infinitely crowded population, it must establish a control mechanism, a "peoplo-stat," to keep the world's population at a desired level. This can be done at present by what he considers comparatively painless methods, such as heavy taxation on families with more than two children. "Tomorrow, of course," says Von Foerster, "it will be more difficult, since the gap between birth rate and death rate is widening every minute...
...course, quantity is not necessarily an accurate guide to theatrical health and achievement But 1959-60, although it offered several dreadful shows, concomitantly displayed a generally improved qualitative level, and thus the year sum seemed to be reversing the post-1957 slump...