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...Henry says we ought to find some way to use the land to erase his deficit. I suggested an amusement park--I thought we could use the streetcar tracks for some of the rides, and get teaching fellows and grad students to sell tickets, manage the concession stands, etc.--but Henry said we'd just get into more trouble with the unions. Henry thought maybe we could invest in a couple of fast-food franchises right there on Boylston St. He says that some colleges have made a lot of money on those (although from what I hear...
...hear, didn't you! that Henry has started again on his weekly can-I-still-be-a-professor telephone calls? Anyway, Wilson told me that this call started out the same way--you know, have you found anyone for my chair yet, keep up the good work, etc.,--but that what Henry really wanted to say was, he still hadn't decided what to do with his archives, and he'd be happy to talk about it with you. Apparently, he's accumulated quite a load of papers, tape recordings, bombing charts, etc., and he thinks it might do wonders...
...when OPEC was inflicting the maximum pain on the oil-consuming world, all the South American nations except Venezuela and Ecuador were also hurt. But they were full of heady visions of "other OPECs" that could force the rich North to pay much more for copper, bauxite, coffee, etc. Then the weakening of world demand knocked down raw materials prices; copper fell from $1.50 to 500 per lb., and Peru and Chile now say the industrial world is "exporting its recession." There is still very little interest in South America in the whole subject of how the advanced world...
...accused Dwight Eisenhower of being a "conscious and willing agent of the Communist Conspiracy." There are fifty feet of the distilled essence of conspiracy, None Dare Call It Conspiracy! Another whole side of the warehouse is devoted to How We Lost...-- books on Poland, China, Korea, Vietnam, East Europe, etc. Then there are stacks of The Blue Book, Welch's original exposition of the Birch code, which describes democracy as "merely a deceptive phrase, a weapon of demagoguery, a perennial fraud. . . the worst of all forms of government...
...only false but implies that there is a genetic determination behind homosexuality, an assumption equally as false. If the reader can put these two myths behind her/him and all of the others as well, she/he may learn that we can be damn good mothers, fathers, social scientists, lawyers, friends, etc., etc...