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...activists at the bottom are unlikely to achieve the miracle reforms that skeptics often demand, and many a Doer crusade is quixotic-witness those largely unsuccessful if unflagging dreamers who battle against highway billboards, jet sonic booms and all-digit telephone dialing. All the same, big social explosions these days are usually caused by a pile-up of many small problems-nearly all of them soluble by small-scale activism. The fact is that democracy needs Doers at every level. How can the U.S. ensure that there are always enough to go around? Does it develop them? The answer...
Using any three-digit number he is certain to succeed with...
...official, who circulated it among civil servants and businessmen. A sort of mini-thesaurus of bafflegab, it consists of a three-column list of 30 overused but appropriately portentous words. Whenever a GS-14 or deputy assistant secretary needs an opaque phrase, he need only think of a three-digit number -any one will do as well as the next-and select the corresponding "buzz words" from the three columns. For example, 257 produces "systematized logistical projection," which has the ring of absolute authority and means absolutely nothing. Broughton's bafflegab guide...
...called for an end to traditional certificates. The committee, composed of bank and stock-exchange officials, announced that by the end of 1969, it hoped to replace all the certificates of actively traded issues with a standard-sized punch card. Every stock or bond issue will have an eight-digit identification number that will be used on all wire communications, transactions, transfers and dividend claims. Standard & Poor's will spend close to $1,000,000 coding some 1,000,000 stocks and bond issues into two directories, each the size of the Manhattan phone book. It plans to make...
...involved in this movement and one thing led to another. I am not a leader, you understand. But leaders cannot seize and occupy buildings. It takes great numbers of people to do that. I am one of those great numbers. This article is the chronicle of a single revolutionary digit...