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...match the Kremlin's current diplomatic stance of a powerful but benign peacemaker. Yet there is far more to Soviet arms spending than appears in the budget. Funds for H-bombs and advanced weapons like multiple-warhead missiles are customarily tucked into budgets for "medium industry" and "scientific research." Additional allocations may well not be listed at all. Western analysts reckon that the true Soviet defense bill will come to about $60 billion in U.S. terms, or just about what the Pentagon spends now, excluding Viet Nam costs. Some speculate that, because of tension with China, the Soviets...
What might be next in theology? Philosopher-Psychologist Jean Houston, co-director with her husband R. E. L. Masters of the Foundation for Mind Research, believes that current experiments in deepening awareness by psychological techniques or with drugs (which she does not advocate) are already leading to a rise in what she calls "experiential" theology. According to Houston, the human psyche possesses a "built-in point of contact" with a larger reality that is experienced as divine. As the laboratory "improves upon techniques developed in the monastery," people will increasingly encounter this interior sacrality. Indeed, she claims, "theology may soon...
More than 65 Harvard faculty members will also deliver papers or participate in other symposia at the meeting. The topics range from social questions such as "science and the Future of Man" in which George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and Lewis Mumfond will participate, to discussions of current research papers on hormones, space astronomy, child rearing, and mitosis...
...unborn. Although there is only the remotest chance that even a minority might be hazardous, further testing of many additives, by chromatographic techniques that did not exist when the substances were first introduced, is clearly indicated. The FDA has already arranged with the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council to supervise such studies of saccharin...
...signs of decline in their sluggish sales and softening profits. Investors discern the portents in falling stocks; the Dow-Jones industrial average has dropped 9% in the past five weeks to a three-year low. The Consumer Confidence Index, measured by the highly regarded University of Michigan Research Center, has plummeted from 95 in January to 79.7 now. President Nixon's economic policymakers recognize the signs of danger. "We are now at a critical period of economic events," says Budget Director Robert Mayo. "The economy is in a state of delicate balance...