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...Development-and an optimist who tries to grow potatoes among New Hampshire's rocks-tore into Osborn's gloomy theories. His main point: population increases, all right, but the world's living standard increases first. When "a lid is removed," both science and population burst upward, "but science gets there first." This is followed by a leveling off at a higher standard. "And thus," said Bush...
...women of New Crete have a wonderful time choosing husbands, but sex, for the elite, is only for breeding purposes; the rest of the time, explains a poet, "we lie side by side, or foot to foot, without bodily contact, and our spirits float upward and drift in a waving motion around the room." Homosexuals and other biological misfits, such as hens that cannot lay eggs, are treated to euthanasia. (The same goes for those who violate "custom" and are repudiated by their class.) Otherwise, all violence, even impoliteness, is tabu-though occasionally New Cretan males are allowed...
...guests-many of them Congressmen-settled into the wooden stands, the Air Force cut loose with everything it had. F-80s whooshed by, skimming the ground, stunting singly and in tight formation. The spectacular eight-jet Flying Wing took off and zoomed upward, followed by the six-jet B-47, trailing clouds of smoke from 18 rocket units. In a race of bomber v. fighter the B-47 Stratojet walked away from the F-80, then was outrun by the swept-back F-86, which has already clocked a record 670.981 m.p.h. For a roaring finale the Air Force sent...
...wind. He neatly dodged predicting either inflation or deflation. What the country was going through, he said, was "disinflation" (a five-dollar word for burp). It was quite a different thing from deflation, he explained. Deflation means a collapse in the price structure, but "disinflation" merely takes the upward pressure off prices.* Everything would be all right, he said, if the public would avoid the jitters "over the healthy" decline in prices going...
...viewpoint can counteract ostensibly public-interested press actually talking the language of business. Ideally, the goal does not lie in this course, but rather in Winn's independent citizen venture. Under the leadership of Marquis W. Childs, for example, a broad-based group of Easterners has invested from $10 upward individually to found a cooperative radio station in Washington, devoted to the public interest and freed from the lone motive of profit of the ordinary out-let or, on the other hand, the possibly prejudiced orientation of the labor-owned stations springing up. Here is one method applicable...