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...American language the word "politician" calls forth contempt and distrust, and such connotations grew, in 1951, with disclosures of corruption and shoddy politics in high places of the U.S. This growing contempt and distrust came at an unfortunate time; in 1951, many of the gravest problems facing the U.S. were political. Churchill, without a trace of shame, calls himself a politician. He means that by aptitude, training and choice, his business in life is to deal with problems of man and state, and state and state...
...organized society and big corporations, but that it seems to have relatively little ambition to do any of society's organizing. What is even more disturbing is youth's certainty that Government will take care of it-a feeling which continues despite a good deal of political distrust of Government. Reports TIME'S Seattle Bureau: "The Pacific Northwest is only yesterday removed from the frontier, but the 'root, hog, or die' spirit has almost disappeared. Into its place has moved a curious dependence on the biggest new employer-Government. A 28-year-old aerodynamics specialist...
...been as smooth between JAMMAT and the Turks as would be desired, or has generally been reported. Basic troubles have been blustering lack of tact and feeling by certain Americans dealing with proud and sensitive Turks; and on the other side, the Turk's distrust of any foreigner. The Turk regards the American he sees as a guy with a big mouth and no sense of military security. The Turks are actually quite right in playing things very carefully. Last month I was sitting in the bar of Beirut's St. Georges Hotel. Two American sergeants on leave...
...done away with war. Now that the earthmen have rocket power almost within their grasp, the space people are afraid that aggression will spread to other hemispheres. They send an envoy on a mission to rid the earth of war, but people have become so imbued with a distrust towards anything that will bring about real peace, that the envoy has to take drastic measures and is almost destroyed in the process...
...catalogue of Ford's dislikes, says Bennett, was a distrust of accountants. He jammed them all on one floor of his Administration Building (he kept the third floor empty) in the hope that they would be so crowded that some would leave. He had no use for most sales managers, thought cars sold themselves on their mechanical qualities. Repeatedly he fired sales managers who blamed a sales slump on the Ford car's laggard styling, finally told Bennett: "What's the use of having any more sales managers? We'll just let them go." He disliked...