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...most efficient machine to handle the enormous complexities of mass production, mass markets and mass financing. In the process, the corporation has become a political and social system as well as an economic one-a state within a state. "Imperial decisions are ratified in this regal atmosphere," says Earl Latham, professor of political science at Amherst College, "decisions to divide up the U.S., develop Venezuela, support an Arab oligarchy, lengthen cars so that they fit nobody's garage, approve treaties with other satrapies of economic power and influence...
Herman Weiss, another American tourist, explains to Juniper the depth of Judaism: "You don't understand, padre. You see, the Christians have never been prosecuted." Milton Selzer, who portrays Weiss, teams with Patricia Bright, his wife in the play, and Miss Latham to present a searing and ribald caricature of antiseptic American tourists in the earthy land of Mexico...
Patrick's script comments wryly on religion. Bunny, a "you-all" type from the southwestern United States, played with high humor by Louise Latham, claims as her faith "extinctionism." In her credo, "nothing matters... God created man to become extinct; in fact, the world ended six hundred years ago." Since, therefore, Bunny doesn't really exist, her cult tells her "anything I do doesn't matter--it's a divine religion...
...presently organized, the group is not, Latham emphasized, a high-pressure type campaign committee for Kennedy. Members at this time include Republicans and non-Kennedy-for-President Democrats, as well as Kennedy supporters...
...Latham, who was Chairman of the Department of Political Science at Amherst last year, is on leave at Harvard for this term...