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...seek advice. Without background, it must be terrifying to become a centimillionaire at 37. But let me allay your anxieties at once. Being very rich is mostly what raucous people call a gas. C. Wright Mills, one of the egghead sociologists, was near the mark when he said: "If the rich are not happy, it is because none of us is happy." Sophie Tucker got it right the first time. "I've been rich and I've been poor," she said. "Rich is better...
...guaranteed minimum income in the proper sense of the word, it should make up the full difference between the income and the base figure. By making up less than the full difference, the bill tries to offer incentives to working and allay middle class fears that millions of people would be satisfied with the base figure instead of their presently low incomes and quit their jobs...
Attitudes to Test. In quest of reassurance about U.S. intentions, Gorton this week flies to Washington for two days of talks with Lyndon John son, whom he met only at Holt's funeral. Johnson and the men around him will certainly try to allay Gorton's fears. They feel that Australia's 19th Prime Minister, a comparative novice in world affairs, may have read too much significance into U.S. election-year oratory-notably Bobby Kennedy's and Eugene McCarthy's dovish stand against further Asian involvement. Still, Gorton intends to test the candidates' attitudes...
...order to allay these fears, and also to pressure countries to sign the treaty, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have included in it sanctions against nonsignatories or countries who do not accept the treaty's requirements for international inspection of all their atomic activities. These provisions would bar such countries from any assistance in developing peaceful uses of atomic energy. However, such sanctions may be ineffective, since France will probably give non-signatories the needed technical assistance...
...Germany's Communist regime has had a constitution for years that embodied most of the liberal concepts of Western democracies. Drafted in 1949, when the Communists hoped to impose it on a reunified Germany, the constitution contained sections on human rights and religious freedom that were designed to allay the fears of nonCommunists. Not surprisingly, East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht never bothered to put those provisions into practice. Last week, in the first referendum ever held in East Germany, citizens dutifully approved a new constitution that is more in line with the totalitarian nature of the regime...