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...view different from that of journalists who hit the country and fly off in a few days. A quick dose of hearty, bluff, American-style democracy, or solid support of the right-wing Kuomintang power-group is not enough, he maintains. "The fact that the imperial tradition had the inertia of three thousand years behind it and was formally abandoned only in 1911 should give us pause. How can we reasonably expect that even a people so politically gifted as the Chinese would remake this ancient tradition in one generation!" he asks...
They would be much higher except that Dr. Schlumbohm abhors Big Business, feels "it is handicapped by inertia, conservatism, and carload mentality." When he gets tired of a product he stops making it, invents a new one. He has no big factory. He farms out the actual manufacturing to such companies as Corning Glass and Alcoa, pays eight girls to assemble the parts of his Fahrenheitor products in the small loft. He has drawn up and filed the 300 patents he holds in three languages (Dr. Schlumbohm thinks it takes about 1,000 inventions to produce a dozen profitable products...
Death from Inertia. Dr. Sabin quickly determined the reasons: politics-ridden health offices, too few doctors, too few hospitals and health centers (only five of Colorado's 63 counties have full-time health departments), no statewide pasteurization of milk, inadequate inoculation of children, pollution of streams and irrigation ditches. Snorted Dr. Sabin: "We think of our state as a health resort. Yet we're dying faster than people in most states...
Paying expenses out of her own pocket, Dr. Sabin took to the road to rouse Colorado's citizenry. Nobody contradicted her facts; she had nothing to fight but inertia. By last week she had won the warm support of Denver newspapers, P.T.A.s and chambers of commerce, had nailed health planks into both Democratic and Republican party platforms, had five model health bills for the upcoming session of the legislature (including one to take health administration from the governor's control), had badgered Denver's Mayor Benjamin Stapleton into a promise to "consider" a city health survey. Said...
...illogical offspring of the book club species, Serving no original function, the Club duplicates already excellent record reviews such as those of the Gramophone Shop and Bernard Haggin, while high-pressuring gramophone owners into buying albums of similar music which they could have purchased all along. Encouraging musical inertia and lack of discrimination, the new group misses a chance to concentrate on new music, and winds up by mailing the dances from "Prince Igor" one month and "Annie Get Your Gun" the next...