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...Dual Spur. Sears, Roebuck's Arthur Rosenbaum did not think that war jitters alone account for consumer sluggishness. The unemployment rate remains high, noted Rosenbaum, and there has been a fall-off in the rate of U.S. marriages (down from 9.5 new families per 1,000 population in 1956 to 8.5 last year). Perhaps even more important, consumers are weighed down with near-record installment debt and with record quantities of already purchased durable goods...
...that. Rosenbaum looked forward to a 6% rise in consumer spending next year. One likely spur to spending is the nation's steadily rising personal income, which in September rose to an annual rate of $420 billion, $17 billion above the recession low last February. Still another spur to business, "particularly in the durable goods area," argued FORTUNE Economist Morris Cohen, will be increased spending by federal, state and local governments-a figure that Cohen expects will jump from 1961's $108 billion to $119 billion next year...
...tenth-grade class at Burgland High School and was turned away by Principal Commodore Dewey Higgins. Angered, 120 of her schoolmates walked out, assembled at a Negro Masonic hall, and were advised by organizers of the Nashville-based Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (who had come to McComb to spur Negro voting) to march upon city hall. The students filed two abreast to the city hall steps, began to pray-and were all arrested. A white S.N.C.C. leader among them, Robert Zellner, 22, of Atlanta, was beaten and kicked in the face by white toughs, who were not arrested. Chief...
...spur the spirit of individual learning, Ridgewood's 700 students move progressively each day through these areas. A cycle may start in a large room, supervised by at least two teachers, where fundamental ideas are introduced. Then comes discussion of the ideas in a seminar, conducted almost entirely by an elected student chairman, with a teacher sitting in for deft guidance and summation. After that the student moves to individual projects in one of the study areas. Superintendent Howard describes the process as one "in which the students keep a series of appointments...
Some Bod. Deprivation, like fame, is a spur. The turning point for Lewis came late in 1920 with the publication of Main Street. He was then 35, had published six novels and numerous short stories to mixed notices. But Main Street touched a contemporary nerve as no novel has done since. It sold furiously and was discussed endlessly. Within ten years, it was followed by Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry and Dodsworth. They brought Lewis wealth and world renown, both of which were cosmetics for an unattractive man. And in 1930 they brought him the Nobel Prize for literature, making Lewis...