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Vigilance is a term usually applied to armies on the lookout for enemies. As Eisenhower's caveat and the raging debate in the U.S. on the role of the military indicate, vigilance is similarly required on the part of Congress, the Executive and the public. It is required not to render the military powerless or to deny its courage and dedication or to thrust it beyond the pale. Such alertness is necessary, rather, to ensure that the military does not, by design or accident, irreparably impair the health of the society it is pledged to protect...
...American Negroes also need-and apparently are beginning to get-a new kind of organic, pragmatic leadership created by their own local efforts and emerging self-confidence. Despite King's caveat, blacks must define the issues and values of their own lives if they are to develop a secure identity in the white world. Ultimately, this problem may be eased, as more cities get black majorities and elect more black leaders to political office...
...have to go," John Kennedy once said, you want LeMay in the lead bomber. But you never want LeMay deciding whether or not you have to go." The reason for Kennedy's caveat was that, like many fighting men, Curtis Emerson LeMay, 61, tends to view the world in crisp, absolutist terms Life, in his professional view, is a perpetual state of war or potential war. When he decided to join George Wallace's campaign, LeMay entered a cloudier more complex political world in which he is less at home. Said Barry Goldwater a former Air Force Reserve...
Slogans Sell. At 33, the gaunt, olive-skinned attorney (Harvard Law, '58) is a new kind of lobbyist on the Washington legislative scene. As chief caveat caller to Emptor Americanus, he has no constituency but the American consumer, no financial backing beyond what he can generate from lectures and writing (his auto-safety book, Unsafe at Any Speed, sold 450,000 hard-cover and paperback copies, earned him $55,000). Nader's success is largely due to his unerring flair for phrasemaking, backed by diligent research. A self-taught speed reader, he flips through thousands of pages...
When it comes to consumer credit, the rule applied by many a department store, used-car dealer and friendly finance company is caveat emptor. Yet in an economy where outstanding credit totals $92.5 billion-at an annual cost of $12.5 billion in interest-the wary buyer or borrower is rare. Some of the interest rates charged-and paid -in the U.S. would scandalize Shylock. A Manhattan woman bought a $300 sofa that actually cost her $624 after two years of installment payments with interest of 108%. A Jersey City man ended up paying $420 for a TV set priced...