Word: mischiefism
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...West were increasingly sharing in the fruits of capitalist prosperity. Not until recently did Europe's Communists realize that the real husk that must be cracked is that of or thodox Marxist economics. Many economists consider Marx's surplus-value-of-labor theory the biggest single mischief-maker in Russian economic history. By focusing attention almost entirely on labor, Marx convinced the Communists that they could ignore capital and interest; they thus grossly mismanaged their scarce investment capital. Now the Communist nations in Eu rope are embarked on vast experiments with profits, market pricing, bonuses and other incentives...
...school windows have been broken in the past year, at a cost of more than $700,000. Latest figures show that Washington, D.C., has paid $180,202 to repair 36,525 broken windows. Damage to Los Angeles schools totals $125,000 from fires, $30,000 from malicious mischief, and $250,000 from thefts. In Detroit, vandalism and thefts cost the schools $415,000 and their insurance coverage. New York's official toll of major vandalism was $1,500,000-not including "minor items" such as furniture breakage and defaced walls, for which the school system had to pay more...
While it is causing, or at least encouraging, mischief on its borders, China continues to have trouble con trolling the course of the Cultural Revolution at home. Scarcely three weeks ago the party paper, Red Flag, proclaimed that President Liu Shao-chi, symbol of all the revolution is attacking, had at last been pulled down. But last week, amid reports of continuing clashes between groups of Red Guards vying for power, Radio Peking broadcast an appeal to the Peoples' Liberation Army to stand ready "to smash the counterattack" of the President and his followers. It is possible that...
...Says one East European diplomat: "They desperately want something to crow about." Moscow's policymakers, who have historically gyrated between common sense and ideological intransigence, could swing toward a hard line. Or they could consult the box score of the last two decades, tot up the strikeouts of international mischief, and opt for cooperation instead...
...Doorway. Clouding the whole presidential picture is Alabama's Wallace, a magnum of mischief in a half-pint package. If Wallace does in deed run as a third-party candidate, warns Goldwater, "he'll take votes away from Republicans," probably in the very Southern states that Barry carried in 1964: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina...