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Final Accounts. Cranking up the Red Guards anew just to attack Liu Shao-chi seems an excess in itself. The best Western intelligence is that ever since October Liu has been President of China in name only, barred from all Politburo sessions and public affairs of state. He last appeared in public on Nov. 25. His name is no longer affixed to official telegrams to other heads of state. He may still be permitted to go to his office and await dispatches and memos that never come. He may be under some form of detention, either imprisonment or, more likely...
...corporate customer has turned to the bond market to get money for such immediate needs as repaying bank loans and building cash on hand. Corporate bond issues last month reached a record $1.64 billion. Banks, as a result, have also turned to the bond market to keep their excess funds working. So far this year they have invested $4.6 billion in municipal and Government bonds, keeping most of their money in short-term securities that can be quickly liquidated if cash is needed. With so much money around, and the discount rate reduced, some businessmen say that they expect...
...movie's faults are those of excess--a little too much freshness, fastness, and cleverness at times. Tricky gimmicks are repeated too often or dwelled on too long the first time around. Possessive Momma sends her son locks of her hair; a hypocritically-pious spinster drags a burly cop off to bed; the bitch-goddess type has tacked above her bed the wooden leg of her first seducer--an albino hypnotherapist. It can be too much, even if you are prepared to accept most anything...
Organization is equally urgent now, for 1968 will not be an easy year for liberals. If an excess of affection for privileged people and antique ideas has been the misfortune of the Republican Party, war has been the tragedy of the Democrats. The first World War brought us the long blight of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. The aftermath of World War II brought a Republican Congress including what responsible historians may well consider the most retarded statesmen since King John. The Korean war brought the defeat of Adlai Stevenson, the loss of both houses of Congress and the eight years...
...conclude with a word on substantive matters. Again I make note of the fact that the President of the United States has not, in these proceedings, suffered from an excess of applause. Let me suggest that it is also a sound liberal tradition to give credit where credit...