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...significance in college choice motivations, especially when parents steer their children towards schools with which mom and dad are familiar. In Scarsdale the important question is not whether you go, but where you go to college. The records for 1956 and 1957 do reveal, though, some trend toward a wider distribution of colleges attended by the school's graduates. More students have been directed toward two year schools: only six per cent of 1956's graduates went to junior colleges, while in 1957 13 per cent continued their education at a two-year school. The increasing competition to get into...
Newsday's essay grew out of an idea hit upon last November by Editor-Publisher Alicia Patterson. She asked Huxley for a series on subliminal advertising as a hidden persuader in television. Excitedly, Huxley proposed a wider investigation of new means of molding minds...
...every case he tried to get the referring doctor to state in writing that the woman's health would be jeopardized by continuation of the pregnancy. Since Dr. Timanus performed almost five times as many abortions as turned up in the Kinsey study, his analysis may have a wider application...
Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith, 49. is an economist who has always found a wider audience than his less articulate colleagues. His American Capitalism: the Concept of Countervailing Power was a bestseller in 1952; some of its ideas went into the 1956 campaign speeches of Adlai Stevenson, which Galbraith helped write. This week, in The Affluent Society (Houghton Mifflin; $4), Galbraith published what he obviously intended to be a searching inquiry into the U.S. economy. Instead, it is a well-written but vague essay with the air of worried dinner-table conversation...
...very much like America at the time of the Revolutionary War," says Lloyd. "I did my thesis on England and America during that period, studying the emergence of the politics of opinion. People in comparative government often mistake Europe for the world. And area scholars often ignore the wider issues. In India, you can see the classic problems of Western institutions unfolding in a non-Western culture. So, you might say, I was fortunate in marrying my wife...