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...eagerness to graft capitalist enterprise onto the Vietnamese economic organism, Smithies ignores possible rejection reactions caused by the incompatibility of American-style free enterprise with Vietnamese cultural beliefs. As Alexander B. Woodside, assistant professor of History, observed, "All Vietnamese intellectuals, Communist or not, think in terms of the collective management of the economy." Yet Smithies' concern with the "market system" is overriding. Discussing the distribution of a agricultural inputs and sale of outputs, he notes, "The record of government performance so far is not impressive." Some might attribute this failure to government corruption and inefficiency. Smithies sees...
Host at a small dinner at his Saigon villa last spring, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker allowed as how western-styled democracy had been "grafted" onto the autocratic, family-oriented society of South Viet Nam. One of his guests joked, "Mr. Ambassador, why do you use the word graft, when it has so many connotations in this country?" Bunker smiled and replied, "Because I do not want to use the word imposed...
Dentists have long attempted to correct some conditions by bridging sections of jawbone with particles of bone from other parts of the body. But the aim of the Denver trio-Drs. William Hiatt, Robert Schallhorn and William Boyce-is to regenerate bone rather than replace it. They graft marrow around the tooth to encourage new growth in the bone surrounding...
...newspaper for something it has published ?but only after the article appeared, not before. In 1931 the Supreme Court reinforced that principle in the case of Near v. Minnesota. Under a Minnesota statute, the state government shut down a scandal sheet that had printed articles lambasting official graft. The Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional. Calling the closure "the essence of censorship," Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote: "That the liberty of the press may be abused by miscreant purveyors of scandal does not make any the less necessary the immunity of the press from previous restraints in dealing...
Died. Carlos Garcia, 74, President of the Philippines from 1957 to 1961; of a heart attack; in Manila. "There's nothing wrong with a civil servant providing for his future," claimed Garcia, who as Vice President willingly inherited the leadership of one of Asia's most graft-ridden countries when flamboyant Anti-Corruption Crusader Ramón Magsaysay was killed in a 1957 plane crash. Though Garcia had pledged an "all-out war" against graft, during his administration there were nearly 30,000 recorded cases of corruption in the Philippines-a fact used by Diosclado Macapagal to help...