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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today's labor into plants and machines for tomorrow. But now they are also finding it politically necessary to divert more and more into consumption to quiet their clamoring people. One consequence is that Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia have begun in a modest way to import capital from the West, permit Western businessmen to invest in some ventures...
...seconds in which to deal with his subject. That's "between 180 and 200 words, depending on how many are polysyllabic," he says. But despite the nerve-racking restrictions, he pours a remarkable amount of information, polish and tart viewpoint into his reviews. Of the flibbertigibbet comedy import, There's a Girl in My Soup, he observed: "Here we have the sort of English play that prevents the American theater from having a permanent inferiority com plex." Or recently, from off-Broadway If two foul-mouthed mental defectives shouting at each other is your idea of theater, there...
...weakness: a balance of payments deficit that reached $1.3 billion last year. He hopes to turn that deficit into a $1.2 billion surplus this year by the blunt and bru tal method of taking money from British pockets. If the British have less buying power, he reckons, they will import less, export more...
Hamilton went further to discount the possibility of an "armed black revolution," claiming that "riots are not preludes to revolution and the notion of black separatism is not at all pervasive in the ghetto. But the import of riots must be understood in terms of the grave psychological dilemma which blacks in America are breaking out of." Taken to its conclusion, Hamilton's implication is that blacks are through with the self-demeaning black mentality which is reinforced institutionally by the subtle and pervasive racism of which the Kerner Report spoke...
Regardless of the wording, the Administration insisted afterward that there had been no change of position and that there would be none. "We've run out of moves," said one high official. "The San Antonio formula is it, as far as we are concerned." Whatever the real import of Hanoi's intensified diplomatic campaign, one side benefit from the Communist viewpoint is the increased pressure it puts on Washington. United Nations Secretary General U Thant chimed in once again and put responsibility for getting talks started on the U.S. The Soviet Union condemned Johnson's "unwillingness...