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...average, reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week, almost 2% above a year ago. The rise resulted chiefly from a 1.5% increase in food prices, which account for about 30% of the index. "This does not mark the beginning of a strong upward trend," said Arnold Chase, chief of the bureau's price division, although he expects the index to rise gradually through the summer. The rise means automatic wage increases of 1? or 2? an hour for more than 1,000,000 workers with escalator clauses in their contracts...
...evolving image-the theory that God is essentially the search for God-may appeal to humanists and troubled skeptics, will antagonize the religious. Philosophically, the Greek writer's twin deities were Bergson (with whom he studied) and Nietzsche. From Bergson he borrowed the idea of an ever upward-rushing elan vital or life force; from Nietzsche he took the belief that "man is a bridge and not an end," and that his task is to surpass himself. Saviors of God is couched in the form and style of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra-ecstatic, apocalyptic, hortatory, an exclamation...
...bird screamed upward off its Cape Canaveral launching pad, nosed over toward the southeast, curved down the length of the Atlantic and navigated 9,000 miles before its nose cone splashed hard by its chosen target just south of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. In exactly 52½ minutes last week, the 130-ton, 75-ft. Atlas rocket set a new U.S. missile record and beat the Russians' best distance mark by more than 1,000 miles...
...professor of English at Georgetown University, and one of the most incisive Catholic intellectuals in the U.S., as he expounds it in a new book, Christ and Apollo (Sheed & Ward1; $5). Manichaeans are every where, says Lynch, particularly in the arts. His case against them: instead of looking directly upward for insight into the in finite, the true way up is the way down -into the finite facts of life. The literary imagination, striving to ascend to free dom, must descend into things, and the model for it is Christ, who "moved down into all the realities...
...early caught the eye of the Fourth Ward's Democratic political chieftains, fellow Irishmen all. When he was 21, a Fourth Ward politico got him a job in the office of the commissioner of jurors, serving jury duty summonses, and from there the ladder of politics led upward. Elected to the state assembly in 1903 at 29, he became speaker of the assembly in 1913. In 1918 he won the first of his four two-year terms as Governor of New York. An energetic and dedicated Governor, he reorganized the state administrative structure, overcame the Governor v. legislature impasse...