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...child is a little animal, rooting, grunting, stringy-haired and grimy, her mind buried alive in the wreckage caused by a disease of infancy. Outdoors, in the front yard of her family's home in Tuscumbia. Ala., her hands grope upward to a sky she will never see. Indoors, she wanders around the dinner table like an overindulged house pet, grubbing for bits of food. The family talks of sending her for the rest of her life to an asylum for mental defectives-but then finds and hires a young teacher from Boston. Half-blind herself, the teacher knows...
...THIS YEAR'S ECONOMY. "The auto industry swings with the cycle, but moves beyond it. It can give impetus to the cycle on the upswing when we have an attractive product, but it cannot provide much upward pressure during a downswing just because the product is attractive. Motor vehicle sales indicate to us that consumer confidence is now at a high level. For these reasons, I am quite optimistic concerning the business outlook for the remainder of the year...
...extending from the hub, with a handle shaped like the ionizer of a space station, it is thrown into the wind on an axis perpendicular to the ground. Depending on the throw, it scoots along for 50 ft. to 100 ft., then tips to a horizontal plane and zooms upward as high...
...finned after section kept it from tumbling. Then, just after the fins separated and went astern, the first of the two-stage missile's solid-fuel engines ignited, spouting a rooster tail of naming gas. Quickly Skybolt accelerated, spurted far ahead of the B-52, turned its nose upward and climbed sharply out of sight. By the time its dummy warhead splashed in the ocean far downrange, it was clear that Skybolt, which has been under forced-draft development by Douglas Aircraft Co. for nearly three years, was well along the difficult road toward deployment with the Strategic...
Kazin's solemnity may be the result of his status in what is usually a two-level hierarchy of book reviewer (bottom) and book critic (top). Kazin is in the middle, looking wistfully upward. He charges that book reviewing is wretchedly done in the U.S. and deplores "the professional philis-tines" of the daily press. He complains of the New York Times's Orville Prescott, for instance, that it is no longer possible to tell what book Prescott is reviewing, since all his reviews sound as if he had written the books himself. The trouble with Kazin...