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...sequitur to conclude that the only alternative to foolish private spending is public spending. Better private spending is just as much of a possibility." Wallich's article is not only loaded: it is often squarely on target, e.g., "Old federal programs never die, they don't even fade away-they just...
...Federalists urged Europe to "federate now." and in 1949 most of these groups came together to establish the Council of Europe. Skeptics refused to believe that anything practical would ever come of these idealistic and largely futile efforts. And yet the power of the ideal itself would not fade. Spanish Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga expressed it better than anyone else...
...recognition, to apartheid, Algerian freedom, South Tyrol terrorism and the future of Ruanda-Urundi. Everyone was only too eager to dump all the issues on the U.N.'s desks, whether there was any real prospect of solution or not. But all the possible agenda items seemed to fade beside the loss of Dag Hammarskjold. Every delegate knew that the whole future of the U.N. as a meaningful force for peace was in jeopardy. The U.N. now might well again become what it was all too often before the Hammarskjold era-a glass-and-steel soapbox...
...never had to call on the I.M.F. for help. But as the economies of Western Europe and Japan have surged ahead, the dollar's long dominance of free-world finances has begun to fade. Last year a sudden European shift out of dollars produced a near run on U.S. gold reserves; last week declining exports and increasing imports threatened the U.S. with a 1961 balance-of -payments deficit that may reach $2 billion, considerably worse than originally expected. No one at Vienna suggested that the dollar was in immediate danger, but everyone was aware that one day it might...
After World War II, however, Newton discovered that it could tune in three television channels; it acquired two drive-in movies and an air-conditioned bowling alley. The sound of trumpets and drums seemed to fade into the summer heat. The 45-member band does not even have uniforms any more. The bandstand is long gone, and concerts are held in Themian Park, where facilities consist of folding chairs set under one dim arc of light. On a recent evening only 86 persons were moved to share the sentiments of a local farmer who stretched full length on the grass...