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...before Spiro Agnew ever left Maryland. Last week the FCC finally moved to curb joint broadcasting-publishing companies that it considers to hold "undue influence on local public opinion." It promulgated a rule forbidding the owner of any TV station, AM-FM radio operation or newspaper to acquire another outlet in the same community...
Social restraints on blacks greatly influence what they buy. Given a hard time buying suburban homes, many blacks find compensatory status in owning impressive cars. Clothing is another available outlet for funds; among Americans with incomes of $7,500 and above, blacks spend 45% more on apparel and 23% more on shoes than whites. Economic necessity prompts blacks to spend proportionately more on food, soft drinks and household furnishings-and less on medical care, car maintenance and books...
Five months after the President enunciated his Latin American policy, U.S. business feels less wanted and more endangered than ever in several countries to the south. A new wave of nationalism, fed by currents of envy and insecurity, is breaking across South America. The mood finds its main outlet in anti-U.S. economic moves. Last year total U.S. investment in the continent hardly increased at all from the $9 billion level reached in 1968. In most of the countries along the west coast, today's most inhospitable region for Yanqui enterprise, private U.S. investment is actually declining, reports...
...Tvardovsky's departure marks the "decapitation" of Novy Mir and "an incalculable loss to Russia and the world." The magazine, he adds, "provided the focus for the post-Stalin revival of a critically thinking intelligentsia in Russia." The immediate effect of Novy Mir's disappearance as an outlet for independent writers will probably be an increase in the amount of good writing circulating from hand to hand by samizdat, the underground press...
Police or con men who shake down the straight gay in return for not revealing him; the bookstores and movie-makers who keep raising prices because they are the only outlet for pornography; heads of "modeling" agencies and other pimps who exploit both the hustlers and the johns-these are the parasites who flourish in the ghetto...