Word: losers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...areas where gambling is legal and race tracks abound; Los Angeles has six G.A. chapters. New York four. Most fertile city for prospective G.A. members is Las Vegas. The casino managers are unconcerned about the inroads the organization might make; none has ever been known to refer a steady loser to the local G.A. chapter. "G.A.'s a stupid organization," says one Vegasite. "Imagine being against gambling in this town." But Onetime...
...McCall Corp.'s stock, McCall's is out to clobber the Journal-and damn the expense. Thanks to its enormous magazine job-printing plant in Dayton, the parent corporation stays a million or so dollars in the black. But McCall's has been a money loser...
...Winner & Loser. Spain was only partly a "rehearsal" (as the familiar phrase has it) for World War II in which Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin experimented with military and political techniques. Actually, the only important military lesson-that mass civilian bombing does not break, but stiffens the morale of the surviving victims-had to be learned all over again in World War II. The political lessons, reaching well beyond World War II, were far more significant...
Stalin, the apparent international loser, showed the greatest enterprise; his agents were able to develop the techniques, so useful later in eastern Europe, by which a Communist minority can influence and finally take over a popular wartime regime. Also, he trained in the NKVD or the Spanish SIM, a corps of future Red quislings-Togliatti. Ulbricht, Malinovsky, Tito. Without endorsing Franco, many readers will draw the hard conclusion from Historian Thomas' documents that if the Madrid-Barcelona republic had beaten Franco, it would have been as a Communist or "people's" republic...
...gained little for its investment (500 million reichsmarks and 16,000 Germans; the equivalent of ?80 million sterling and 50,000 men from Italy). Later, Hitler could never induce Franco to give him houseroom in World War II. And on the face of it, Stalin was the loser on his investment of ?88 million sterling. But Stalin got a great hunk of Spain's gold reserve, and-in addition to the preparation for future political maneuvers-Stalin achieved his greatest triumphs of Communist propaganda, doublethink in action. "War for Peace" was his gimmick. It was not in vain that...