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...itself, the withdrawal is laudable. But it is also insignificant these bases are almost totally useless, large portions are rented out to local peasants, and the only one which is really practical--it tracks missiles launched in Florida--will continue in this function on a more limited scale. The withdrawal is embarrassing because of its blatant omission why not Guantanamo...
Poor but Rich. The key to the waste is environment. Comparing opposite ends of the social scale, Dean Horace Mann Bond of Atlanta University reports that "culturally disadvantaged" families produce only one talented youngster for every 235 from "culturally advantaged" families. In affluent suburbs, 25% of all youngsters score 125 or above on IQ tests. In poor neighborhoods, only 6% do so. The reason is partly that IQ tests, though aimed at measuring intelligence rather than learning, necessarily reflect "normal" exposure to books, conversation and even material gadgets. Without such riches, the bright slum kid seems to get dumber...
...Free Press also began printing an afternoon "family edition," which is being sent to the Times's old delivery stations. Goaded into action, the News has started to strike back, printing 400,000 extra copies daily to be circulated to the Times's subscribers. With a full-scale circulation war threatening, fights have broken out between News and Free Press dealers, and both papers report that stacks of their papers have been looted or destroyed...
...relationships with women. But Loewe is mockingly uninterested in psychoanalysis, while Lerner believes in it strongly, has had a pride of analysts. Loewe professes not to worry about his health, while Lerner is a bit of a hypochondriac, makes a fetish of weighing himself daily; he buys a new scale wherever he goes, probably owns the largest collection this side of the Office of Weights and Measures. Loewe has hated the telephone ever since he answered it once when he was six, was told that his favorite uncle had committed suicide. "Bad news I don't want to hear...
...human race. He does it, not as a mystic does, having undergone some shattering revelation, but with earnest and scholarly equations. His doomsday is the year 2026. In the November 4 Science, Professor von Foerster calculates by elaborate mathematics what will happen if the human species avoids large-scale disaster (e.g., nuclear war), sets up a cooperative world society, develops technical methods that yield an unlimited food supply and continues to increase at an ever-quickening rate as, he says, it has been doing since the time of Christ. The climax will come at a calculable date in the future...