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Studying the Rout. Under a long stretch of rule by G.O.P. machine politicos from 1884 on. Philadelphia became nationally notorious as an example of municipal inertia and political corruption...
...Khrushchev Code, a glittering prospectus for Communism's future by which Nikita hoped to add Khrushchevism to Marxism-Leninism. Yet his paper utopia seemed impossibly remote to most Russians. As a thundering anticlimax, Khrushchev in March unveiled his new blueprint for agriculture, leaving no doubt that the inertia and inefficiency of Russia's farm system will not be overcome in Khrushchev's lifetime, if ever...
...program. He ran two miles before breakfast every morning, sweated himself from 195 lbs. down to a flat-bellied 168. To train himself to handle a capsule tumbling out of control through space, Glenn spent hours spinning giddily in the fiendishly contrived "Mastif" (multiple axis space test inertia facility) that simultaneously rotated him in three directions, like a carnival ride gone amok. Time and again he rode the giant centrifuge that multiplied gravitational pull to simulate the strains of take-off and landing. Despite his years, Glenn showed the least heart fluctuation of any astronaut. (At lift-off last week...
...Post Office. Before he became ambassador, the Indian government retained him as an adviser. In his reports, describing the inertia and inefficiency of India's state-owned industries, Economist Galbraith coined the catch phrase "post-office socialism," proceeded to place the blame for its mediocre showing on "the socialists, who are responsible for the paralyzing belief that success is a matter of faith, not works." In the U.S., where he is himself known as a devout believer in economic planning, these words would sound strange from Galbraith; but amid India's "post-office socialists," he sounds almost like...
Historical Inertia...