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...Nixon discussed the other evening the continuing exodus of an odd and unused commodity from our shores. Although neither candidate grasped the central point, expressing themselves in generalities about stabilizing our currency, and particularly reducing the national debt, their comments made clear the weakness of gold itself as the bulwark of our economy...
Meanwhile savings, the time-honored bulwark against the hazards of age, have shrunk in proportion to the demands of medical care. In the years when today's oldsters worked and saved, wages were relatively low. Inflation and the high costs of modern medicine and surgery have scrambled many a nest egg. In the past decade, medical costs for the aged have about doubled. Today the average couple over 65 spends $140 a year for medical care, or $700 if hospitalization is needed. But 57% of the aged have means of less than $1.000 a year, counting social security benefits...
Soda Pop & Slocks. "The poor working class no longer exists in England today," says Donald Tyerman, editor of London's Economist. The so-called proletariat that was the bulwark of socialism and Communism is giving way to an immensely enlarged middle class, intent on acquiring all the trappings of affluence. One excellent measure is autos. U.S. Businessman Arthur Watson, boss of IBM World Trade Corp., found the change astounding. Eleven years ago the manager of IBM's big plant at Essonnes, France asked Watson for permission to build a shed to house the workers' bicycles; two years...
...believe that the American free-public-school system is a bulwark of American democracy, or do you stand for a religiously segregated school system...
...real trouble with Congress, says Burnham, is that it is too weak. There is a danger that it will be reduced to a ceremonial rubber stamp, as the Roman Senate was under the Caesars. If that happens, he warns, the U.S. will lose a solid bulwark of liberty...