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...plus $300,000 he raised elsewhere, he was able to start National Review in 1955, a publication that provided him with a voice. It also served as a rallying point for other conservatives. To Review came Russell Kirk and Frank S. Meyer, Whittaker Chambers and James Burnham. From the outset, they quarreled snappishly on its pages. Traditionalists like Kirk, who value society over the individual, battled libertarians like Meyer, who emphasize the individual over society. "I pretty much had to insist on the relevance of both points of view," says Buckley, who made it his business to keep the fractious...
...another Cuba. The British decided that the best way to preserve Lee's power over Communist obstructionists was to unite Singapore and Malaysia, an ideal for which Lee had been striving for a decade. With British support, such a federation was effected in 1963. It was unstable from the outset and dissolved two years later, but observers believe that Lee has emerged a stronger Asian figure as a result of the temporary coalition...
...outset, let me declare that I am confident that in many respects the public exaggerates the evils associated with the use of marihuana. Occasional use, considered strictly from a health standpoint, apart from social consequences, has not been demonstrated to be deleterious. One may assume (although this has not been clearly proven) that the physical welfare of an individual is at least as gravely prejudiced by occasional use of alcohol and constant use of cigarette tobacco as by episodic use of marihuana. However, if consideration for the moment be confined only to the physical consequences of marihuana (apart from...
...resort-and-industry town of Lake Havasu City in the sparsely inhabited Arizona desert along the Colorado River. Humble Oil's Clear Lake City, which is on 23,000 acres of oil and gas-bearing grassland near Houston, shows promise of success after suffering some fumbles at the outset. Against more difficult odds because of recent costly land acquisitions, Shipping Tycoon Daniel Ludwig's Westlake Village near the San Fernando Valley and Mortgage Banker James W. Rouse's Columbia near Baltimore are also making a quick start. "The worst that can happen to us," insists Rouse...
Numbing Facts. From the outset, the reader is assailed with statistics and parenthetical goodies. People who have hired lawyers usually think less well of the profession than people who have not. A juror may not take notes in most courts; he might become too influential in the jury room, and there is no way to control the accuracy of his notes. The U.S. has 300,000 lawyers-far more both proportionately and absolutely than any other country. Surprisingly, they average only $13,000 a year. Contrary to the big-city lawyer image, almost 50% of U.S. lawyers practice in cities...