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...view, accept the same measure of financial discipline as it seeks to impose on others." No less curtly, Macmillan replied: "You say that the [budget] for the next year must be the exact equivalent of the sum spent this year. The rigid application of this formula would do more harm than good . . . This is not a matter of popularity . . . This is a matter of good judgment ... I particularly regret that you should think it necessary to take this step when the difference between you and the rest of the Cabinet is such a narrow...
...Communist proposals for settling East-West tensions, few have been more often repeated than this. Yet last week it was no Communist who said it, but a true-blue Tory-Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Said Macmillan in a broadcast to the nation: "It would do no harm. It might do good...
...Waco, subscriptions soon deluged him in the currency of a dozen lands. The 16-page Iconoclast was a potpourri of flamboyant comment on all things, laced with spleen, belly laughs, erudition, ribaldry and scorpion satire. Often intemperate, rarely constructive, Brann could be-and was-accused of doing more harm than good. But it was hard to fault his eloquence. On the approaching marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough, he mocked: "The fiancé of Miss Vanderbilt is descended...through a long line of titled cuckolds and shameless pimps, and now stands on the ragged edge of poverty...
...staff system could and should come only after the fullest possible debate-and that debate is just now starting in earnest. To be carefully weighed is the possibility that the conversion, in Sputnik's day, would be too strong a dose of medicine, might do the patient more harm than good. Yet the proponents of the general staff system argue that the U.S. can afford no less at a time when the technology of war and weapons has so plainly outraced the military organization that supports...
...says a member of Colorado's State Commission on Alcoholism, "many industries still are either unaware of alcoholism in their own plants or unwilling to acknowledge the problem." But, as many companies are beginning to realize, such attitudes not only encourage the problem drinker in his course but harm the company itself. The best way to eliminate the cost and waste of problem drinking in industry is to face up to the problem. Says Mrs. Elizabeth D. Whitney, executive director of Boston's Committee on Alcoholism: "We're encouraged by the gradual awakening that has occurred...