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...course, I met a couple of important Harvard types. There was the wealthy, fantastic tennis player who left his mind behind on the team bus one day. There was an up-and-coming Texan capitalist--the counter-cultural kind who dresses down to rip you off. He pats your back with one hand, picks your pocket with the other. There was also the budding urban pol. He was one of the nicest but most difficult to live with. To see yourself as a future bureaucrat, a part of you has to have died a bit early in life...
...conclusion, Sampson confesses to bewilderment at the effects of ITT and other multinational corporations--a bewilderment apparent in his insistence that the company is both a "maverick" and an organization that "takes the capitalist system to its logical limits," so that "for any ambitious businessman, it is an anticlimax to retreat back from those limits." There is no obvious reason not to believe both these statements: few organizations carry anything to its logical limits. ITT offers us a chance to study the workings of the profit motive in as pure a form as they are likely to assume. Like Gerrity...
Limelight. To the government and the financial establishment the Lip commune was a threat: the workers were challenging basic laws of a capitalist society. Gleefully, the political left whipped up L'Affaire Lip into a cause celebre...
Allende, in U.S. news dispatches, is always "Marxist President Allende." Nothing the matter with that, but why not call the criminal in the White House "Capitalist President Nixon." At any rate, the right is moving to crush the Chilean people with extra-legal assassinations, political power plays and the like, and all the good American liberals can do is read their newspapers and tremble about civil liberties...
Most Americans believed that American-style republics deserved support, and that communism was a bad thing. Naturally, therefore, the United States threw its weight behind Vietnam's liberal classes. At Geneva, Vietnam was divided into a politically democratic, capitalist south and a socialist north. Since the Vietnamese had just fought a long and bitter war for national sovereignty and unity, this solution was less than ideal. But each side--the liberals and the communists--believed that Vietnam would be united under its own system of government in the national elections scheduled for 1956. And in the south, the middle-classes...