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...council government must continue to pay 150, 000 government employees (in a population estimated at 3,000,000). carry on an elaborate pension plan, and absorb the losses of at least seven mismanaged nationalized businesses, e.g., liquor manufacturing, a repertory theater, railroads. The result is deficit spending on a grander scale each year-and consequent inflation...
...potatoes?" Though the press-TV battle is widely debated in New Mexico, it was symptomatic of publishers' and broadcasters' sensitivity to criticism that neither the Associated Press nor the United Press filed a single story on the fight. Nor was it an isolated skirmish. On a grander scale, some TV network executives charge, economic rivalry is prompting newspapers to wage a subtle and far-reaching campaign to discredit TV even while they promote it. Item: Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram and Sun in the past month has run four Page One stories quoting authorities ranging...
...Foundation clearly comes close. Were the foundation nothing more than what a New Yorker wag called it-"a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some"-it would wield power enough. But it has used its money to tackle problems-and try solutions-on a scale grander than private philanthropy has ever known. It has more than a third ($2.7 billion) of all the foundation money in the U.S. It spends at the rate of $100 million a year, has brewed up such a wide assortment of projects that it is practically impossible to say where...
Perhaps now that the U.N. has shown how ineffectual it really is in a crisis, people will stop thinking of it in terms of a Congress or a Parliament on a grander scale. As a means of exchanging ideas and ideals, it is a fine organization, but it would be far better if it were physically located in the Soviet Union, where a free exchange of this type would be a novel experience for the population. As an arbiter in maintaining law and order, the U.N. is a howling bust. Moral indignation has saved few people from a firing squad...
...summer is a time of hard-boiled stocktaking, half-baked promises and raw replacements. Last week there were fewer replacements, grander promises -and an unexpected twist to the season's stocktaking...