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...most fervent speech of the af...
...indemnity. Hickel issued a stern warning to Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik, a German company that plans to build a petrochemical complex on an unpolluted saltwater estuary near the lush island resort of Hilton Head, S.C. In a letter to Hans Lautenschlager, president of B.A.S.F.'s American af filiate, Hickel made it clear that he would not tolerate any pollution. "This department," he wrote, "will strenuously oppose any action which would result in the degradation of the water quality in that area." According to one Hickel aide: "The Secretary doesn't even want treated water flowing into that...
...AF??ER much persuading, I conned a f??ernity man into accompanying me into Chicago the next day. Promptly 5 a. m. Thursday morning Day and I entered the subway station at ??vis Street in Evanston. Our only supplies were a roastbeef sandwich sm?ggled from the fraternity house and my small sack of Marshall Field chocolate chip cookies procured the day before...
Thus the working-class or lower-middle-class American hangs in anxious suspension above poverty and well below af fluence. Meantime, his wage gains are being eroded by in flation, rising taxes and the lure of easy credit for new cars and other luxuries. "This man feels himself more alone than any other member of society," says Saul Alinsky, a life long organizer of working-class movements. "He is almost out of his mind with frustration - call it hate. He sees his Government, with programs for blacks and for the indigent and programs for everyone except him, and he figures...
...rate faster than it is produced. The rich man has no more of it than the pauper-and no less. Previous economic theory, says Linder, fails to take into sufficient account that leisure time must be consumed, either by doing something or doing nothing. For a society both af fluent and leisured, and anxious to put every moment to good use, there are simply too many things to do. Overwhelmed by a burgeoning store of goods and services designed for pleasure, the would-be consumer, trying to do everything at once, succumbs to a malady that Linder calls "pleasure blindness...