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Anyone who doubts the flexibility, not to say the stupefying broad-mindedness of bureaucracy, should consult the Internal Revenue Service's official taxpayers' guide. The pamphlet advises: "Bribes and kickbacks to nongovernmental officials are deductible unless the individual has been convicted of making the bribe or has entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere...
...rail cars. Some top U.S. businessmen, worried about the steady inroads of Japanese finished goods into American markets, have suggested that U.S. companies should withhold raw materials altogether, as a means of thwarting that drive. Partly to anticipate such trouble, the Japanese government recently warned its businessmen in a pamphlet: "We must be careful not to give the impression that Japan is interested only in plundering natural resources. Any operation the Japanese engage in must be mutually beneficial...
Even with the gradual disappearance of contact between PL and rival radical groups, there are still instances of this sectarianism; at Harvard, for example, a member of the November Action Coalition who had collaborated with members of SDS on a pamphlet discussing the Center for International Affairs had his political affiliation stricken from the later printings of the pamphlet. Members of SDS had decided that, since they had started and paid for the pamphlet, it should not bear the name of an unfriendly political organization on it-"We were afraid it would buildNAC," one SDS member said later-especially since...
...showed me a slender glossy pamphlet on the school. When the library was described, a peculiar emphasis was placed on the wall-to-wallcarpeting, while little was said about research facilities. Turning to the front page which bore the face and words of the college president, I indicated to the interviewer that gracing the shelf behind the president's head and just out of the camera's focus was a set of The Harvard Classics, that six foot shelf of great books collected by President Eliot over fifty years ago. On the cover of this promotional pamphlet were the ".. words...
...found myself defending Harvard's tough-mindedness, its neglect of graduate students in the name of intellectual individualism. I was rebuking this man of the West with all the hauteur of the mythical Harvard man ! It was only a final touch of logic that the Chamber of Commerce pamphlet which described the town in which this man's college was located, showed, in its street guide, that every street and avenue bore the name of an Eastern college (a Harvard Avenue) or historical figure prominent before the westward expansion of the nineteenth century...