Word: ought
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...Your brilliant story on Libermanism [Cover, Feb. 12] ought to disabuse many Americans of the pleasant dream that use of a profit system for state enterprises puts the Soviet Union on the road toward a free society. The Russians adopted this technique to beat us at our own game. It will not make them free-enterprisers or lead to lasting greater freedom for the individual. The seeming decentralization of decision making will not last-as you correctly quoted me and some unnamed State Department experts as saying...
Powell concluded his self-exonerating House speech with a stirring statement about his battle against the forces of evil: "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, that I ought to do, and what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I will...
...subject up for discussion on the TV panel show was television news, and one of the guests weighed in with a surprising suggestion. "I heartily believe," said CBS Newscaster Walter Cronkite, "that in 1968, the political parties ought to ban television from the floor of the convention hall. It certainly makes a mockery of the fact that this is a convention of delegates who are supposed to be listening to the speeches and tending to some sort of business on the floor." Cronkite added wryly: "I'll probably be read out of every honorary journalism society in the world...
...lose the "stock car" championship to Chrysler, which installed custom-built, $12,000 "hemispherical-head" engines in its Plymouths. That was too heady for Bill France, owner of Florida's Daytona International Speedway and president of NASCAR, who has the funny idea that somebody besides a factory ought to be able to compete in the contest. He banned the "hemi-head"-which put Chrysler in such a huff that it refused to race at all at this year's Daytona Speed Weeks. "France made stock-car racing," groused a Chrysler mechanic. "Now he'll kill...
...nationally humiliating to confess it," editorialized the liberal-minded St. Louis Post Dispatch, "but the truth is that we are risking world war in Southeast Asia for no sound national purpose at all. The new exchange of strikes simply emphasizes the bankruptcy of American policy. Our basic purpose ought to be to disengage from a fruitless and seemingly endless conflict by seeking a political instead of a military settlement...