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...this context a successful development policy can consist as much in refraining from doing the wrong things as in doing the right ones. It must avoid the restrictions and licensing arrangements that have hampered development and have bred corruption in the past. It must resist domestic pressures to set up high cost import substitution industries. It must resist the pressure of labor to establish real wages that are so high that the country cannot take advantage of its plentiful labor supply...
...Japan's strengths, like Britain's, is its ethnic homogeneity. But this has bred an almost schizoid attitude?now arrogant, now absurdly humble?and it has led to a distorted, inward-looking perspective. "You have intermarried, you have had a mixing of population," says Diet Member Kiichi Miyazawa. "We have had none of that. We have so little in common with the West...
...such stars as Baritone Robert Merrill and Maria Callas. Austrian by birth, British and American by achievement, Bing was given the highest accolade of his career last June when the British government made him Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. But in New York, familiarity had bred discontent. All the more surprising when Sir Rudolf-who will retire at the end of this season-walked onstage at the Met opening to make a minor announcement and was greeted by a standing ovation from the audience. "I was quite amazed," Bing admitted. "They applauded me!" Then he went...
...think Aunt Susan would have approved of today's Women's Lib leaders," said Susan B. Anthony, 55, in a New York Times interview. "She was a Quaker born and bred, a highly moral virgin, and she lived like an absolute nun. She would have deplored the sexual-freedom aspects of today's movement." Contemporary Susan B. was talking about her grandaunt, Women's Rights Crusader Susan B. Anthony, whose influence she describes in her newly published autobiography The Ghost in My Life (Chosen Books, $5.95). "I spent so many years of my life resenting...
...Tripping Rods. The painful difficulty of learning that lesson is made clear in Stephen Diamond's What the Trees Said, the story of a single commune located near Montague, Mass., just south of the Vermont line. Diamond's book chronicles how a cadre of city-bred radical journalists slowly adapted to life on an abandoned farm. For some of the ego-tripping rads, the hardscrabble experience was, quite literally, unbearable (one committed suicide). For Diamond, it was a solution with flaws-very like his far-too-cute journal of the change...