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False Glow. Just as economists now debate whether this year's economic slide could justifiably be called a recession, they may be arguing next year whether so weak a comeback should be certified a recovery. The strike at General Motors will distort the picture for the next six months or so. The walkout, Arthur Okun estimates, will chop $1 billion off the gross national product for each week it lasts, and give a misleading impression of a deepening slump. In early 1971, Okun adds, catch-up production by G.M. will paint an equally deceptive "rosy glow" on the economy...
...leaflets circulated by these extremists who have dwelt among us in recent years, bent on slandering an institution it might have been assumed they would love, or lovingly find fault with, without discovering a single effort to clarify, to analyze, to explain or honestly to represent. Always they insinuate, distort, accuse, their aim being not to identify and correct real abuses, but always rather by crying alarm intentionally to arouse and inflame passions in order to build support for "nonnegotiable demands," and by this means, to enlarge their following and enhance their power. Clearly the old McCarthy technique...
...leaflets circulated by these extremists who have dwelt among us in recent years, bent an slandering an institution it might have been assumed they would love, or lovingly find fault with, without discovering a single effort to clarify, to analyze, to explain or honestly to represent. Always they insinuate, distort, accuse, their aim being not to identify and correct real abuses, but always rather by crying alarm intentionally to arouse and inflame passions in order to build support for "non-negotiable demands," and by this means, to enlarge their following and enhance their power. Clearly the old McCarthy technique...
From Arizona, where he was making a commencement address shortly before he left HEW, Finch hit back, saying that the charges "grossly distort the position of this Administration in the mental-health area." Furthermore, he declared, "Dr. Yolles has consistently shown a complete unwillingness to cooperate in this department's planning for more effective mental-health programs. Rarely, if ever, did he deign to participate or communicate with others in the department in efforts to bring better help to the mentally...
...military men and what he called "the metal eaters"?the managers of heavy industry. But while Khrushchev tried, often unsuccessfully, to keep the military men on relatively short rations, Brezhnev may feel obliged to keep them well fed in exchange for their recent backing. That would further distort the economy, already heavily oriented toward military needs, and the very quality of Russian life as well. As TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter cabled from Moscow: "Guns have been built at the expense not only of butter but also of soap, toilet paper, furniture, dishes, flatware and household appliances. There remain glaring...