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...Nevada: Mossback Republican George W. Malone, 68, lost his third-term race to middle-of-the-road Democrat Howard W. Cannon, 46, Las Vegas city attorney for ten years, less on political grounds than because Las Vegans, who recently surpassed Reno in population, were peeved because all three Nevadans in Congress were from Reno...
...most U.S. railroads the passenger business is a money-losing headache. To the passengers, most railroaders are mossback operators who neglect service while engaging in a never-ending round of raising fares, chopping schedules and eliminating branch lines. Last week another big fare boost loomed for the embattled passengers. The Pennsylvania and the New York Central, which together move 27% of all U.S. passengers, are trying to get the rest of the nation's passenger lines to join them in asking for a first-class-fare hike of 33⅓% to 50%. To many experts it looked...
...change dates from the '303, when the economy revolved around the apathetic peasant sugar-cane cutter, and when industry-even rum-making-hardly existed. In 1940, Puerto Rico resolved that it was going to transform itself. Industrialization became a major goal. As a starter, the government bought out mossback electric companies, built dams, strung transmission lines, and thus provided the electricity that powers today's boom. But the most astute stroke was the 1942 creation of a government corporation, now called the Economic Development Authority, with a charter to industrialize the island...
Gathered for a "national strategy" meeting in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel last week, some 800 U.S. Republican leaders spent most of their time milling around the lobby, airing local problems (how to interest young people in Pennsylvania's mossback G.O.P. organization), inspecting campaign gimmicks (ladies' hose with "I Like Ike" lettered across the ankles) and considering, with notable lack of enthusiasm, a limp national slogan ("Ring the bells and tell the people"). Then, as the last event on the two-day agenda, they heard the President of the U.S. open his campaign for re-election...
First there is the system of disagreeing totally with tea instructor and his approach to the course. If we are dealing with a liberal professor, the correctly composed exam for the virtually uninformed should sound like the outraged bellows of the mossback, while the exam written for a conservative lecturer should do justice to the thinking of any red-eyed radical. Total disagreement is an effective exam technique for two reasons: 1. It requires far less information to write a general polemic against an entire policy than it does to criticize specific weaknesses in that policy. For in the latter...