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...Seed (adapted from William March's novel by Maxwell Anderson) will not be easily dislodged as the season's most harrowing drama. It is the tale of a sweet, golden-haired, eight-year-old girl who, when crossed or cornered, indulges in murder. But its various homicides do not begin to exhaust its horrors. Slowly, tormentedly, the little girl's mother becomes aware of her daughter's nature; then she discovers that her own mother was a mass murderess also...
Hopkins' plan was right in line with President Eisenhower's atoms-for-peace proposal (TIME, Dec. 6), but went much further. It would "seed" have-not nations with reactors. By thus enabling them to create new industries, the U.S. would convert what is now "a giveaway plan [of foreign aid] to what would be a repayment plan." Said he: "Atomic reactors . . . would . . . grow the real wealth out of which their costs could be paid back." If India and Pakistan, for example, put up counterpart funds to match the $170 million of U.S. aid allocated to them...
Almost inevitably, Kiesler's idea will be taken up by other artists and carried to greater heights of execution. He has planted the seed for a new kind of art, and inevitably opened for himself a whole new era of damnation and deification...
...filmed minutes (CBS) to assuring viewers that an inferiority complex should not prevent financial success. The Peales told how a friend of theirs, a perennial business failure, utilized his return to the bosom of the church to develop a profitable line of costume jewelry: he featured the "mustard seed of faith" (Matthew 17:20) in charm bracelets, clips and watch fobs. Said Dr. Peale: "It helps to have faith in God as well as in yourself...
...Labor Statistics directly controls the wages of well over 1,000,000 workers; a fractional miscalculation could cost U.S. employers millions of dollars in paychecks. The farm support program is based on the Agriculture Department's calculations of how much farmers must pay for such essentials as tractors, seed and fertilizer. Since these calculations in turn affect the prices of farm products, the U.S. housewife meets Government statistics every time she stops at the check-out counter of the supermarket. Department stores use Federal Reserve Board retail-sales figures to plan buying and to control inventories. Railroads use Government...