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...account for this progressive collapse of ancient cultures? Muggeridge sees one cogent reason: "Practically everyone wants to live as Americans live. It must be the first time in the history of the world that human desires have been so standardized. Driving at night through little American towns, I used to notice it. Neon signs starkly proclaimed contemporary man's basic requirements-food, drugs, beauty, gas. These are the pivots of felicity in the mid-20th century. Everywhere in the world is getting to look like everywhere else, and everyone is getting to look and be like Americans...
...absence of footnotes in this book is misleading, however. This is not a book for the layman. Familiarity with Michel's Iron Law of Oligarchy is essential if one is to negotiate the complexities of Parkinson's cogent argumentation and meaningful insights...
...Remedy. Rising at the fund meeting, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft showed the determination. "I have not come to discuss the exchange-rate parity of the pound," said he. "It stays at $2.80. I stated this before I left London. I repeat it now.'' One cogent reason was a stronger British trade surplus than expected, equivalent to $600 million in the year ended June 30, against previous official predictions of $350 million. Even at the risk of unemployment from the tightening of money by the Bank of England fortnight ago, said Thorneycroft, Britain will defend...
...more cogent argument for peaceful coexistence is that most readers' thirst for the printed word is only whetted by TV. It is likely that TV was a big factor in newspapers' gain of 1,000,000 circulation (to a record 57 million) last year. Los Angeles Times Editor L. D. Hotchkiss even credits his paper's saturation coverage of TV with helping to cure the summer circulation slump that has long plagued dailies. Madison Avenue also seems to have heeded publishers' arguments that newspaper ads command greater attention than TV commercials. While...
...paper the varsity heavies must be ranked behind Princeton, the prevailing opinion at Newell on the eve of the race is that the Crimson will avenge its earlier defeat at the hands of the Tigers. The varsity most certainly has improved since its race with the Tigers; the cogent fact will be, how much has Princeton improved...