Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naval Air Station in Olathe, Kans. Startled Navy officials hastily assembled a motorcade of staff cars, managed to get the President and Milton into a Navy Chevrolet for the 27-mile ride into Kansas City. On the way a motorcycle escort kicked up such noise that an unidentified excitable citizen called a radio station, which soon broadcast that Nebraska Teen-Age Murderer Charles Starkweather (see Crime) was hightailing through town ahead of the cops...
...custody of the state. Result: tyranny. Marx's error, say K. & A., was his failure to see that the culprit was not the institution of private property itself, but undue concentration of capital in a few hands. The Kelso-Adler answer: decentralize capital, make everybody a "citizen-capitalist...
Creeping Socialism. Since capital "owned by about 5 percent of the households, [in the U.S. economy] produces 90 percent of the wealth," the U.S. has yet to apply the full logic of K. & A.'s citizen-capitalism. Instead of broadening the base of capitalism, they argue, the U.S. merely redistributes earnings through an elaborate, makeshift system including the steeply graduated income tax, arbitrarily fixed high wages, surplus-producing subsidies, featherbedding, Keynesian deficit financing, etc. Through such "creeping socialism," labor's share of the wealth produced has increased from an estimated...
...domestic U.S. flights. Passengers have trouble buying tickets in advance, since flights are often reported fully booked because clerks hold out large blocks to satisfy any last-minute demand by Soviet VIPs. A foreigner can usually wangle a seat at the last moment, even if a nontitled Soviet citizen must be bumped just before takeoff. In flight, meals are heavy and ordinary, include Georgian wines, vodka and cognac. The piston planes are un-pressurized, and many of the TU-1O4 jets are pressurized to a cabin altitude of only 9,000 ft. (v. 5,000 ft. for U.S. planes), carry...
Wade Hunnicutt is the big man and big landowner of his county in Texas. He rates first not merely by virtue of wealth, but because he is the best hunter, the most responsible citizen, the man whose word commands immediate respect. Yet, at the same time, everyone suspects the truth about Wade and Hannah Hunnicutt's marriage-that he has slept with just about every other woman in the county. He has a preference for married women, and altogether too many youngsters in the town are dead ringers for Wade Hunnicutt. All this his wife Hannah knows, as well...