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...scrutinized and gave tacit approval to the draconian British budget introduced last week (see THE WORLD) before the Labor Government dared present it to Parliament. Had the IMF considered the British economic cutback too meager, it could have canceled the loan and so forced Britain at least to the brink of a second devaluation. The price Britain is paying for its profligacy is a partial loss of economic sovereignty to one of the most effective international organizations in history. Schweitzer considers it a badge of honor to have been denounced lately in Parliament. That, he says, is the kind...
...kids. They came from as far south as the Carolinas and as far west as the Great Lakes. Not only the alienated but the merely uncommitted were drawn by McCarthy's antiwar stand and by a hope of revitalizing a political system that many had been at the brink of disavowing. "We're almost afraid to ask them what their intelligence quotients are," said McCarthy, "because they open with M.A.S and an I.Q. of 150 and go on from there." On the final weekend, his headquarters had to turn away 2,500 volunteers, including a group that...
...there are limits to what American power can do in Vietnam; on the other hand, there are no limits to what American power can do to Vietnam. Unleashing on a small country the most destructive firepower ever known to mankind, the United States has brought our nation to the brink of annihilation. The words of the American commander, that "To save Bentre it has become necessary to destroy it," plainly reflect the moral, political and military bankruptcy of American policy in Vietnam. Both self-interest and moral responsibility, then, make it imperative that the people and government of the United...
Even if cassettes do not evenutally triumph in this field, Philips Executive Anton van den Brink points to another major role for them that may be no more than five years away: the video tape cassette, which would be hooked into television sets to provide an almost unlimited range of sights simultaneously with sounds...
...Wall Street Journal and Playboy. His How to Get Out of Viet Nam, a 47-page, 350 broadside, has gone through a printing of 250,000. As national chairman of the liberal, 50,000-member Americans for Democratic Action, he has helped push the group to the brink of a possibly irreparable split by promoting the presidential candidacy of Viet Nam Critic Eugene McCarthy...