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DISARMAMENT and the abolition of atomic weapons can be so popular and plausible a cause that no Government could afford to miss it. Its underlying fallacies may be summarised as follows: Armaments are relative, not absolute. If Powers A and B reduce their armaments by, say, 10 per cent, their relative strengths, other things being equal, would remain the same. There would be no gain in terms of security. No limitation of armaments, whether at existing level or at an agreed lower level, is practicable, because the ratios between the Powers are inconstant. If A and B agree to limit...
Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, said that "the greatness of a university depends upon the men who are in it. If the University," he continued, "can afford to put up a building which would house the fields of psychology, anthropology, and sociology, so much the better, but we can go along with our present facilities...
...room apartment, if the owner lived in it before the war, is pegged at about $12 a month; he often sublets two or three rooms for $30 a month each and pockets $60 to $90 without lifting a finger. The landlord, getting only the official $12 a month, cannot afford to pay taxes and keep up repairs. Result: no repairs are made, and many apartment buildings are slowly rotting away...
Anyone remembering Beat The Devil or Porter's own gangsters in Kate, knows the potential in the three bumbling agents who are sent out from Moscow to retrieve an errant comrade. The trio is wasted, however, in a show which can afford no waste; their "Siberia" number is as flat and as cold as that overworked land itself. In two other instances, "The Red Blues" and "Too Bad," they are joined by the entire chorus for masterpieces of staging and action. Since the audience is at no time caught by the musical, this brilliant motion is another waste--more pointless...
Spread of such competition and rate-cutting all around could give the average man insurance he can afford...