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Honestus: Several factors help perpetuate the system. One is the inherent momentum of Government aid programs: once they get started, it is hard to stop them. The recipients of aid come to depend upon it and to regard it as an inalienable right; the bureaucrats who administer the programs acquire...
His administration presses court cases against officials who acquire "unexplained wealth." More important. Macapagal has raised the salaries of government workers and the armed forces. With his usual public-relations gift, he drives a Chevrolet and issues palace breakfast invitations to honest taxi drivers who return lost wallets.
According to scuttlebutt in the aviation industry, TWA and Pan Am have conceived a technique for finessing Hughes which seems a bit too clever. Heart of this maneuver would be to have the smaller TWA (net worth: $74 million) technically acquire Pan Am (net worth: $135 million). In fact. Juan...
A Twinge of Guilt. Though they first appeared in the U.S. in the 1890s, trading stamps did not catch on until the mid-1950s. At that point, the nation's burgeoning supermarkets discovered that they had exhausted their fund of novel merchandising methods and had gone about as far...
From the blockhouses of Canaveral to remote tracking stations, spacemen were jubilant. Saturn had flown precisely according to plan, reaching a top speed of 3,750 m.p.h., curving 50 miles down range before being purposefully destroyed. From the brief flight, scientists got 602 different kinds of information radioed back to...