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Taking as its point of departure the Beveridge report (TIME, Dec. 14), the Economist points out what every U.S. businessman knows, namely that social security legislation is meaningless unless it is combined with the maintenance of tolerably full employment. The maintenance of full employment in turn depends on 1) a high level of consumer buying; 2) a high level of investment; 3) a high level of foreign trade upon which will depend the "British standard of living, the level of national prosperity, and the possibility of social security...
Suspension of the Student Council Committee on Curriculum and Tenure was voted at a Council meeting Wednesday night in the belief that certain action in the near future by the government will render the immediate task of the committee meaningless. This body was one of the largest and most important of the Council committees...
...must either practice what it preaches or be content with the humiliation of attacking race prejudice from the armchair only. In connection with this the Council's move was an obvious evasion, since the Graduate School constitutes a very small part of the University and the phrase "orientation" is meaningless...
...Information and it is in "The Illusion that the Facts will Speak for Themselves" that his analysis is most acute. Many of the author's other themes are integrated here as Reston calls, not for more news, but for clearer interpretation of what is available. Figures are meaningless until they are broken down and their significance explained, and news services have so far ignored this portion of their responsibility. In this failure lie the roots of many of the illusions at which Reston strikes. "Prelude to Victory" is, in itself a graphic illustration of the type of interpretation needed...
...foresaw the need was handsome, silver-topped Paul Vories McNutt, who looked at his title of Manpower Tsar and found it meaningless. McNutt's job was to mobilize the nation's men & women for war, get them into the most productive jobs, keep them there. But for all his glamorous title and vast task, he lacked the power...