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Formidable! To hear Castro tell it on TV next night, he had just seen the promised land. "A formidable people! Enthusiasm, organization, discipline, order!" Nothing could compare with Russia's resources and standard of living. To see capitalist lands, he said, "is crushing-crushing because it is to cross from the frontier of abundance to the frontier of hunger." For Cuba's own frontier of hunger he promised vast improvements-particularly in the sugar crop that has tumbled from 6,000,000 tons to 3,000,000 tons in two years. Comrade Khrushchev, said Castro, worked on this...
Once again that modern miracle-the capitalist, citizen-controlled U.S. economy -confounded the doubters. Only a few months ago President Kennedy had uttered bleak warnings of recession. Academicians and government brain-trusters talked worriedly of "high-level stagnation." When the economy got bouncy late last year, they said it was only a "last gasp." Some gasp. As of last week, almost all indicators were still on the rise-and the surge had very little help from government...
...Dreadful Threat. Only a generation ago, the great plea of social conscience was that unfettered individualism must be curbed for the sake of the community as a whole. Freedom of conscience from religious persecution, political freedom from arbitrary rule, even economic freedom from "capitalist exploitation"?all these greatly troubled past ages, but by and large they are no longer at issue in the U.S. Today's champions of the individual do not worry about religious persecution but about religious blandness, not about outright tyranny but about creeping collectivism, not about economic exploitation but blind and well-paid loyalty...
...individualistic businessmen, when popularizers turned Darwin's theory of natural selection into a doctrine of economic predestination, according to which the damnation of the weak was a law of nature. But out of this era grew the sometimes uneasy partnership between business and government that in effect built a capitalist welfare state and an almost universal middle class society...
Under the shrewd leadership of aging (70) Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti, the Reds have always taken care to balance their ideology against the fact that Italy is a Catholic nation. At one time they backed the monarchy; nowadays they even favor the capitalist Common Market. As a nation, Italy is less than a century old; first under the monarchy, then through the long night of Fascism, the country has had little time to accustom itself to democracy. Thus, to many Italians, Communism-or at least their brand of it-does not appear the fearful specter that it does in many...