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...were brought on in part by taxpayer disaffection. But today's tax-revision tide is essentially different from the elemental discontent shared by all burdened taxpayers throughout history. What is astir in the U.S. is a sophisticated discontent?the nation has scrutinized itself and found a deep but correctable flaw...
Congenital Flaw. Chrysler still has a long way to come back, but at least it seems headed in the right direction. It took an aggressive and impatient young man to do it. Some of Chrysler's difficulties, as well as its success, stem back to the character of its founder, the late Walter P. Chrysler. A cocky, self-educated industrial genius, Walter Chrysler so constructed the corporation that he constituted the only real link between its major divisions. This was all right so long as he was around. His successor was K. T. Keller, like Chrysler an ex-master mechanic...
Although expansion has been accomplished by plunging many farmers into debt, the only serious flaw in the changed economic structure, this has not tempered the general optimism. Chanzeaux, Wylie reports, is no longer fatalistic about its future. When he asked, "What's going to happen?" the answer last month was on verra bien (we'll see about it) instead of the usual c'est sera sera (what will be will be). This new confidence is changing what Chanzeaux--and the rest of France--expects from politics, and moderating the passion with which villagers have traditionally treated political controversy...
Forgotten Flaw. In the early performances, something went wrong at the end. After recording with satirical relish the expanding fortune of a vicious, backbiting, devious, ruthless little sweet-smiling crud, the show ended with a number called Brotherhood of Man, delivered in a manner that seemed to say: "All right, fellas, all right, we've just been kidding around for two hours; we really love each other, we all believe in Help the Other Fellow and Turn the Other Cheek; now let's all say we're buddies and go home." Star Bobby Morse lacked mordancy...
...sticky, squint-eyed world of the stamp collector was rocked to its very perforations last week. It was a flurry over a flaw, and as every one of the U.S.'s more than 13 million stamp collectors knows, a flaw is worth far more than perfection. Rarity is, of course, the touchstone by which all stamps are valued; but more often than not, a rare stamp is different from millions of its counterparts only because it has some technical disfigurement. To the tweezer-and-magnifying-glass set, discovery of such minor imperfections as missing watermarks or too-much-violet...