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...Rusk, General Maxwell Taylor and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Jackson was convinced that no basic reorganization of the nation's policy machinery is really necessary. "More often than not," he emphasized, "poor decisions are traceable not to machinery but to people-to their inexperience, their failure to comprehend the full significance of information crossing their desks, to their indecisiveness or lack of wisdom. Our best hope lies in making our traditional policy machinery work better-not in trading it in for some new model...
...buys these records? Some of the country's best-known big companies (General Electric, Ford, TWA, IBM) go in heavily for salesmanship recordings, which are now published in short, 6½-minute segments. "We did have 30-minute records, but they were too hard to comprehend," explains the manufacturer. People with new false teeth buy copies of Your New Smile, sold through dental supply houses. But in the main, although sales are tumbling along healthily, it is difficult to say just who does buy most of them. It is simpler to say why the records are made. With...
...relative handful of Americans who really comprehend the intricacies of the Federal Reserve System's operations in the money market. George Wilder Mitchell, 57, last week got his just desserts: the Senate approved his appointment by President Kennedy to the Fed's seven-man Board. An economic liberal who favors low interest rates and perhaps more power for the Fed's chairman, he was sponsored by a fellow liberal, Chief Presidential Economist Walter Heller. Mitchell, until now a vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, is also a tax expert who was Illinois director...
...they are victims by association. Booth's sorry hangers-on, with one exception (Payne, who did attempt to murder Secretary of State Seward), are merely frightened and bewildered. And poor Mary Surratt, kind, dignified and finally broken, goes to the gallows wondering at the inhumanity she can hardly comprehend. Stacton's villain is Secretary of War Stanton who organized the military trial, hand-picked the judges and suborned witnesses...
...lost prestige on many fronts because its foreign-policy makers were unable to comprehend the changes that were taking place in several countries. The change that is taking place under President Quadros is a healthy one, and Brazil certainly deserves a credit of confidence from this country in order to continue forging ahead speedily for its place in the sun among the great powers of the West. Before the U.S. tries to convert its enemies into friends, let it consolidate its relationship with its real allies and friends. I believe your article did much to help create a better understanding...