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Since the tax reduction program sets out to subsidize private investment (but, as indicated, with no assurance that economically useful investment will result), the government should consider entering the capital market directly, making long-term, low-interest loans available to bright risk-takers whose enthusiasm has failed to impress the men at Morgan or Chase, Manhattan. The U.S. Government does precisely this in an effort to encourage development in ex-colonial countries through its contributions to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; perhaps such direct credit expansion is necessary here, too, where the managerial mentality is so firmly...
...scheme might also end the near-sighted economic rivalries between political figures who compete to lure industry to their states. It would impress upon younger businessmen the principle that maximization of profits cannot serve as the lone criterion for American industrial development...
They do define violence, however, as a measure to be used only in self defense, and justify it on the grounds that the only way to impress the majority of people in this country with the graveness of the Negroes' plight might be to threaten them. "The longer you work for Civil Rights, the more radical you become," a Negro leader mused recently. "You begin to realize that white people who are supposed to be on your side aren't even listening to what we say. They're content to let things remain as they are while they talk about...
...such as his "suggests that if a candidate and his friends are willing to go to all that trouble--and with no chance of electoral reward--they must mean what they say. In the simplest terms, this is what we tried to do last spring. We were trying to impress on the minds of our fellow citizens that for a minority of people in one key state of the union the issue of human survival was worth an extraordinary commitment of time and energy. And that I think we accomplished...
...answer, which has been very popular in Britain, maintains that Kennedy deliberately cancelled Skybolt to eliminate Britain from the nuclear club. The period of humiliation was designed, so the theory goes, to forceably impress upon the English, as well as DeGaulle, that the U.S. was running the nuclear armaments show and did not welcome competition. This explanation concurs with statements by both Kennedy and McNamara on the necessity for a "unified NATO command," which is today U.S. command. Enticing as this theory may sound, it does not quite square with the final outcome of the Skybolt affair. For the Polaris...