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...appropriate "country desk," made up of men whose business it is to know intimately the affairs of a given foreign nation. The country-desk men, followed by officers in higher echelons-regional, area, assistant secretarial, under secretarial-must successively judge whether the reported information is worth passing upward. The reports may at any level be edited, rewritten or combined into what George Kennan says is often "a hodgepodge inferior to any of the individual views of which it was brewed." Other Government departments, most notably the Pentagon and the CIA, are drawn in. Great deliberation prevails; John Kennedy (as quoted...
Onward and Upward...
Faust, as Goethe conceives him, is the image of Western man: man sundered, as Goethe was, by an intolerable antithesis of spirit and substance. Faust cries out: "Two beings ah! within my breast are fighting!" One clings to the earth, one "mightily thrusts upward to the sky." Salvation, for Goethe, lies in man's capacity to reconcile these opposites in creative activity. For creation, for a true birth, the feminine vessel is necessary as well as the masculine spark; but the problem of woman involves the problem of evil; and so Faust sells his soul to the Devil...
...Administration expects no notable overall rise in steel prices, chiefly because the steel industry continues to face rising competition from imports and from such home-grown competitors as aluminum, cement and plastics. The industry has already revised prices (mostly upward) on 20% of its products this year, usually by increasing the extra fees charged for finishing items to a customer's preferred size or weight. After inventories return to normal, it will probably tiptoe toward price boosts on such defense items as carbon sheet, bars, plates and tubes. Despite grumblings that the wage settlement with the union will cause...
...rises spread across both consumer and industrial areas of the economy. The consumer price index last week inched upward to a record 110.2% of the 1957-59 average (up a modest 1.9% from a year earlier), largely because of the higher costs of auto insurance, home ownership and meat. Without the recent federal excise tax cuts-75% to 80% of which have been passed on to the consumer-the index would have pushed even higher. Wholesale prices rose to a new record in July, gaining 2.5% over a year ago. Raw-material prices have risen 10% in the past year...