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...level, the federal bureaucracy rolls on as before: collecting taxes, mailing social security checks and performing the myriad other housekeeping tasks of Government. But in many matters requiring policy decisions, a creeping paralysis has set in. In one of his first public pronouncements after being appointed Nixon's chief domestic adviser last week, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird declared:"The Government in some quarters is at a standstill...
...rose 12%, to $477 million, exceeding ITT's average increase for the past dozen years. Last week ITT announced that in the first quarter of 1973 operating profits rose 11% over a year earlier, to $105.6 million. Few if any customers were moved to shun ITT's myriad businesses-which include, among many others, running the Sheraton hotels, baking Wonder Bread and operating the U.S.-Soviet hot line. Even unfavorable Government action has turned to ITT's benefit. In the first quarter, profits from sale of stock in Canteen Corp. and Avis rent-a-car, which...
...Inspector is ample proof of this abiltiy: it puts together a myriad of figure and landscape styles, different qualities of line and shade, and images drawn from the Old Masters, Hollywood, or city streets. Juxtaposing all these sources and qualities, Steinberg shows himself a bricoleur in the finest sense -- the artist who filters through the refuse heaps of other arts to select parts for his own strange constructions...
THESE are only a few of myriad missions that the CIA has performed around the world. The agency is also constantly accused of fantastic James Bondian exploits that more often than not it has nothing to do with. The fact is that no nation can any longer accept Secretary of State Henry Stimson's bland dictum of 1929 that "gentlemen do not read other people's mail." In a nuclear-ringed globe, intelligence is more vital than ever. Nor can a world power automatically limit itself to such a passive role as mere information gathering; trying to influence...
...single, unified state seems directly imperiled. But others have been rattled, to a greater or lesser degree, by a variety of unhappy minorities: Switzerland's Jura separatists, Sweden's Lapps, Rumania's Transylvanian Hungarians, France's Bretons and Corsicans, Spain's Basques, and myriad ethnic groups of Italy-the German-and French-speaking pockets in the north and the Sicilians and Sardinians in the arid mezzogiorno (southland...