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...your "People-Smuggling" story [Jan. 31], you chide these fellows for carrying on a "strictly commercial venture." In 1953 such a profiteering fellow led me and five others across the Austro-Hungarian border; the risks were fantastic and he collected a well-deserved $1,000 for each of us after doing an excellent and very unemotional job of it. Later that year he was shot by border guards. He was going back to smuggle out his fiancee. Believe me, no mere profiteer was he, but I would not take a penny less for that kind of an occupation...
...even the limited role described by Fortas troubled many, including liberal friends. He admitted, for instance, that 21 months after donning the judicial robes, he had called a businessman friend, Ralph Lazarus, chairman of the board of Federated Department Stores, to chide him for questioning Administration estimates of war spending. Fortas refused to say whether Johnson had instigated the call, thereby leaving the impression that...
...Viet Nam debate too often resembles a pingpong match between those who vociferously damn Lyndon Johnson for doing too much and those who chide him for doing too little to end the war. Yet for all the noise they make, so far, at least, the critics on both sides have been heavily outnumbered by the millions of Americans in the middle who, however confused or unhappy about the war, see no simple alternative to the Johnson Administration's present course and have no medium for their views. Last week the majority found a new voice...
...plants running at a slack 85% of capacity (v. last year's 91% peak), they also suspect business of using any pretext to raise prices in order to reap a windfall of earnings as the economy picks up. Reflecting this root distrust, Ackley recently took special pains to chide the rubber industry for following a strike-forced labor settlement that was "clearly out of line" with price hikes "even greater than the added costs of the wage agreement...
Some of the most atrocious forgeries in the long history of the U.S. dollar are circulating today in Eastern Europe. The bills are so badly rendered that Warsaw's daily Zycie Warszawy recently felt obliged to chide the forgers. "It must be admitted with shame," the paper said, "that in Poland forgery is attempted by slackers, by people devoid of professional pride who let loose on the world shoddy goods rather than self-respecting forgeries...