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...technology and will of the world's greatest power, this small agrarian land?albeit one well supplied by China and the Soviet Union?was finally on the verge of victory. What durable, wily old Ho Chi Minh had insisted on, what his heirs in Hanoi had continued to demand???the departure of the Americans and their chosen government in the South?was finally coming to pass...
Detroit insists that it has been adding the high-profit accessories to meet public demand???and that has indeed been true for some time. But the energy crisis is radically altering the popular mood. Politicians, ever sensitive to public attitudes, have recently been falling all over one another to swap their long limousines for more modest cars: Delaware Governor Russell W. Peterson is exchanging his chauffeur-driven limousine for a chauffeur-driven Ford Pinto. Some legislators have gone so far as to attempt direct action against the big car. Early this month, the Senate voted to require that...
...more college campuses than any others. "The book makes modern corporations into kings who rule unilaterally. They don't. They're constitutional monarchs; they try to shape the market, but they can't make the market react." Nor do TV's insistent pitches always succeed in artificially stimulating demand???as manufacturers of detergents, breakfast cereals and the Edsel ruefully concede...
...their readers and the dictates of policy. Would curiosity overpower the anger of the individual at seeing the private affairs of himself and his neighbor thus laid bare? Would public opinion swing against the publicity and regard it as excessively bad taste? What did one's political affiliations demand???to publish or not to publish? Of Republicans, not to. Of anti-Republicans, by all means to publish?loud, long, vigorously. The cold theory of journalism enjoined all to publish. Here was news?big, big news. What matter who had let it out? If one newspaper published...
...arisen who seems likely to succeed Puccini in popular vogue, and it may be that the reason for this is to be sought in the turning of newer composers of Italy from the traditional operatic form to symphonic music. Certainly there is a recent great increase in the demand???in America at least?for Italian orchestral compositions. Italian symphonic music was for centuries a byword for insignificance, but the new modernists of the peninsula are pushing forward at a great rate. Many of the copyrights on their works, however, are held by German and Austrian publishers, since Italian publishers have...
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