Chapter 11: Love How Real? Was there ever a word more awkward to define? And, for that very reason, more thrillingly divine? Above all, what has it to do with dreary economics? Histrionics? Half or full employment? Matrimonics? Flushing your veins with a scent of spring or with the majestic glow of fall and causing the Heavenly bodies to dance…

Chapter 12: “I am just an accident,”           said Ralph. He was a biologist with a brilliant career behind him and, possibly, an even more brilliant one ahead. His new strains in grain, his Chlorella research had caused our anxious forecasts in the sixties about a coming mass starvation in the mid-seventies to be reversed into worries about how to get…

Chapter 13: Freedom’s Gate People trapped in civilization’s spider-web have no place to land which is free, as do the birds. There is a story of two birds who loved each other so much that they forgot everything else, even themselves; even that they existed. They soared over the mountains, dived into the virile foliage of the forests and jungles,…

Chapter 14: Clashing Minds We, who dreamed with JFK about a greater reach of our economy — clashed with minds, and not mainly on questions of economics. Much of the resistance was connected with philosophy, with religion, with prayer and, particularly, with fear. Among opposition groups, two were distinctly discernible: Anti-Catholic Protestants who saw Kennedy as a representative of the…

Chapter 15: Silent Reach “The consensus of studied opinion is always wrong.” This statement was made by Charles F. Kettering on the occasion of his receiving an award of merit from the American Alumni Council in July 1948. Charles Kettering was one of our most remarkable inventors, the kind, it is said, who made America. So the Council of Alumni…

Chapter 16: That Unsettled Business The move to survey the nation’s potentials, initiated during the Kennedy Administration, remained unfinished at the termination of that administration. It is still unfinished today. The participants are not solely to blame; the nation’s economy as a whole is also unfinished business. The succession of governments are not to blame any more than the population…

Appendix SPEECH OF HON. PATSY T. MINK OF HAWAII IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, March 1, 1972 Mrs. MINK. Mr. Speaker, one of my Hawaii constituents, Dr. John H. G. Pierson, has proposed a method to resolve the unemployment-inflation problem by amending the Employment Act of 1946. His statement, “Completing the Employment Act,” offers a most provocative approach to…