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...good until the last sentence, which was ridiculous. Just why is it reassuring to look forward to an unchanged situation no matter who wins? The purpose of a presidential election is not to provide a meaningless choice between two moderates but to give the electorate an opportunity to discard policies with which...
...plant in Toronto. His aim: to win nearly half of the 200-million-ballpoint-pen Canadian market within three years. Brash though that seems, it only matches the hustle by which Adler last year sold U.S. buyers 480 million ballpoint pens, almost all of them use-and-discard models priced from 19? to 49? retail. Adler keeps a quarter of his 300 plant employees busy checking the quality of parts coming off automated production lines, personally scrutinizes the daily writing-test samples before each shipment leaves the temperature, dust-and humidity-controlled plant. "People are going to remember...
...credentials. But in The Beautiful Life those with proper credentials are leaving for more lively high times. For Dexter Knight, a homosexual society columnist and staunch defender of permanence, Old Society is the true, classic currency, or to switch metaphors, the official yard-stick by which to measure (and discard) every new wildness...
Thirteen states have now abolished the death penalty, in whole or part. But while the rest of the country is reluctant to discard it, endless appeals as well as commutations now commonly delay or prevent executions. At the beginning of last year 331 prisoners lingered on death rows across the country, but few if any of them are likely to join the 3,856 Americans (including 32 women) executed since 1930. The Federal Government has carried out only one execution in ten years, now has only one pending (Nebraska Bank Robber-Murderer Duane E. Pope). Says Michigan's Senator...
...Thus we discard the proposal for abolition of 2-S for two reasons: (1) It plays right into the Establishment's hands; and (2) It does not provide a means of uniting students with each other or with the larger community of draft-age men. It is just the tired old "the-worse-the-better" concept in new clothes. We do not demand that 4 per cent of the white job-holders give up their jobs so Negroes won't have twice the unemployment rate (the Negro unemployed, let alone the white worker, would scarcely thank us for winning such...