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Down with Squirrel Guns. Despite last week's headlines, and the FTC's reputation as a very litigious lady, the commission has been trying to reduce its legal assaults. It issued 415 cease-and-desist orders last year-12% fewer than in 1963. Its $28,500-a-year chairman, Paul Rand Dixon, a husky Tennessean, scorns what he calls "the squirrel-gun approach" of suits against individual violators, prefers to lay down ground rules for entire industries...
...summary, the State Department should desist from denying other people their right of self-determination. The State Department should stop kidding benevolent American taxpayers--to whom we owe our sincere gratitude--into believing that it is combating Communism in Africa. The U.S. government is only massacring Africans who never heard of Communism nor are even threatened by Communism. We loathe Communism as much as we abhor U.S. military intervention in African affairs. However, should the U.S. continue to massacre the ignorant Africans, then we will be forced to ask Communist countries that are equally strong to save us from this...
Combing Wave. The letters offer no single exposition of Frost's theories of writing, but remarks scattered about the volume show something of his approach. He cuts off a good-humored parody of free verse with a perfectly serious joke: "But I desist for want of knowing where to cut my lines unhokuspokusly." He wrote to John Cournos, an unsuccessful novelist: "There are the very regular, pre-established accent and measure of blank verse; and there are the very irregular accent and measure of speaking intonation. I am never more pleased than when I can get these two into...
...have done. Reuther also doubtless considered that a strike against Chrysler would be less of a drain on the U.A.W. strike fund, would have the best chance of early success, and would probably damage the economy least, thus creating the least public pressure on the union to desist. There could be a serious flaw in Reuther's thinking: Chrysler still accounts for only 14% of auto-industry sales, and G.M. and Ford just might refuse to sign any contracts patterned after one won from the smallest of the Big Three...
...smoothly suggested that now was the time to normalize trade relations-meaning his lost sugar sales-and mused about the possibility of resuming diplomatic relations. He even admitted that he had supplied aid to guerrillas in other parts of Latin America, and airily offered to cease and desist if the U.S. would end its own subversive activity inside Cuba. "We do not hate you," said Castro magnanimously. "If the U.S. is ready to live with us, then we would feel the same obligation...