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Kooky Country. The current crisis in Southeast Asia has been perfectly predict able for many months. When President Kennedy took office, Communist troops in Laos were already on the offensive. Hardly anyone seemed to care. Laos assuredly was a kooky kind of country, economically, politically and socially. But militarily it was a dagger thrust into Southeast Asia -it flanked South Viet Nam on the west and Thailand on the east...
...works in progress is an analysis of contemporary views of freedom. Shinn has also just finished a book on the problems of Christian education, and is chairman of a committee that is writing a study of race relations for the National Council of Churches. Colleagues, however, predict that his major work will be in the field of Christian ethics...
Astronauts heading for some distant planet may not be quite as ignorant as Clough's seamen. But if a spaceshipload of them were to blast off tomorrow, they could not predict their landing point within thousands of miles. Such uncertainty could be disastrous, and Physicist F. E. Lowther of General Electric Co. hopes to do something about it. He is starting his campaign with an effort to correct that old reliable constant of physics: the speed of light (now calculated at 186,282 m.p.h...
...More practice and coaching for the Tennis team. "Tennis is impossible on Soldiers Field," says Barnaby, "it's either the rain or the wind. The indoor courts would make it possible "to build up players the way we do in squash. The way it is now, you can predict the outcome of the tennis league in the Fall--it's difficult for the coach to change anything...
...money, a selective investor must watch for undervalued shares of companies with strong profit potentials. A minority of Wall Streeters even suggest that the next peak may mark the end of the Great Bull Market-which has persisted for 15 years despite temporary setbacks. Not even the pessimists, however, predict a selling panic; what they gloomily expect is month after tedious month during which stock prices mill around endlessly in the trading range-never crashing into the cellar, but never making new highs...