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...lamp-the force-fed 5% economic growth rate (growth rate of the U.S. economy over the past half-century: 3%). Platform Committee Chairman Bowles admitted fortnight ago in Los Angeles that he did not know how a 5% growth rate could be achieved without inflation, but no such candor intrudes, into the platform...
...family album that has dazzled the world ever since. Each year thousands of visitors to the Prado in Madrid have come to know Goya's bumbling old King, his sharp-faced Queen, the sulky heir apparent, and a host of beribboned infantes and infantas, all portrayed with ruthless candor. But one member of the family is rarely seen: the frail Countess of Chinchon (see color), whose portrait hangs in the private collection of her descendant, the Duke of Sueca...
Faced with the unexpected, the State Department, after its manly candor, set out to make its own points about...
Such cold-war candor gave the U.S. a chance to discuss with equal candor the massive problem of getting adequate intelligence about the vast Communist nations. The Soviet dictatorship keeps its secrets-even from its own citizens-by the classic techniques of a police state. Travel is restricted, and foreigners off the beaten path are spied on. No news of even an air crash ever appears in the Soviet press unless the Kremlin wants it there; no stories of new weapons or defense plants are ever told by Moscow's radio commentators unless there is a propaganda motive. Secrecy...
...restraint, finally passed public judgment on internal Cuban affairs. Writing to Chilean students who had asked about U.S.-Cuban policy, Ike said: "The idea of intervention into Cuban affairs is as distasteful to the U.S. as would be intervention into domestic affairs of any other American republic. In all candor I must state that many longtime friends of Cuba . . . have been gravely disillusioned by betrayals of the ideals of freedom of expression, equal protection of the laws and the right freely to choose a representative government...