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...Cambridge professor of political economy from 1944 to 1957 and one of Britain's most respected academic economists, who, working with John Maynard Keynes in 1926, wrote Banking Policy and the Price Level, which initiated Keynesian economics by examining the function and effect of savings in a capitalist economy, later broke with Keynes, believing him guilty of exaggerations and misrepresentations; of a heart attack; in Cambridge...
...business-side executive for Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers, then left in 1948 to enter politics and become an antinuclear, anti-Common Market leader of the Labor wing that recently made Harold Wilson party chief; of a stroke; in Manhattan. "I've done well under the capitalist system," he once said, "but I loathe all it represents...
With all the hoopla about American products coming out of Moscow last week, one might have thought Madison Avenue had been moved to Gorky Street. First came endorsement of blue jeans, a commodity the Kremlin had always disdained as a capitalist fad worn only by parasites. Nonsense, declared Izvestia, "Texas trousers" are "very useful," adding reassuringly that "the origin of blue jeans is not with Hollywood movie stars, but with real cowboys, who don't take part in wild chases and romantic gunplay, but in honest and hard work...
Nikita Khrushchev was getting a little self-conscious about the way the capitalist world was cheering on Red Russia's quarrel with Red China. At a Moscow party given by the visiting King of Laos, Nikita grabbed the hand of the Chinese ambassador for all the attendant Western correspondents to see, and declared: "When the last spadeful of earth is thrown on the grave of capitalism, we will do it together with China...
...hours, the Communist host and his capitalist guest exchanged good-natured gibes, hitting it off quickly when they discovered that they were born a few weeks apart in 1894. Five times, Thomson suggested vainly that the Premier hold free elections in East Germany, and once Khrushchev called his guest "an exploiter." When Thomson presented Khrushchev with battery-driven watches, his host was suspicious: "Are you sure it is not an infernal machine put together by capitalists to blow up Communism? I will tell my wife to try them on first." Said Thomson: "We don't need any infernal machines...