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LOVE & REVOLUTION by Max Eastman. 665 pages. Random House...
...three decades of this century, all sorts of Americans were calling for revolution, but they meant quite different things by it. Some wanted revenge on a society that had neglected them; others, exasperated by the tortuous process of democracy, wanted an authoritarian master who would correct all injustice. Max Eastman simply wanted everybody to be as happy...
...Eastman was a most improbable radical. Homegrown, hearty and ebullient, nurtured on the Concord philosophers, Eastman castigated society without hating it. Abolish capitalism, yes, and reconstitute society-but good-naturedly, if you please...
Nearly every industry is setting new marks. Robust increases were reported by such varied companies as Alcoa (up 19% over 1963's third quarter), American Cyanamid (24%), Caterpillar Tractor (76%), Continental Can (26%), Eastman Kodak (39%), IBM (12%), Polaroid (83%) and Weyerhaeuser (123%). Steelmakers, who face labor negotiations next spring, were pleased but slightly red-faced about their spectacular profits: Republic up 79% , Jones & Laughlin up 97% , Youngstown Sheet & Tube...
...business has been growing by 20% a year, is expected to hit $480 million this year. A dozen major manufacturers as diverse as Royal McBee and Eastman Kodak are in it, and many other giants, including IBM, are looking. All of them are trying to copy the sales drive and scientific ingenuity of the far-ahead leader, Xerox Corp., whose earnings for the first nine months of 1964 have risen 59%. Having pioneered an electrostatic process that requires neither special paper nor chemicals, Xerox makes machines that can turn out seven to eight copies a minute at about 31? each...