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HAVING devoted another pamphlet to the subject, Galbraith soft-pedals military spending in this essay. It should be clear, though, that the Democrats can more effectively put this issue across on economic grounds rather than moral ones. To stake a case against militarism on moral arguments might ultimately work but it would entail unnecessary years in the political wilderness. Given the current patience of voters with liberal ethics, the party might wisely reserve appeals to conscience for matters like racial poverty and apartheid. Military spending defeats itself almost from fiscal definition of the problem. It creates enormous budget deficits...
Died. Samuel B. Mosher, 77, founder of The Signal Companies, a conglomerate with sales that topped $1.5 billion last year; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. In 1922, armed with $4,000 and an instruction pamphlet from the Bureau of Mines, Mosher constructed a small unit to extract natural gasoline from the "wet gas" found in the Signal Hill field near Los Angeles. Within five years, he was selling 34 million gallons annually to major oil companies. He went on to help found Flying Tiger airlines, bought interests in American President Lines, the aerospace industry's Garrett Corp., Mack...
...Canadian visitor Down Under was given a pamphlet from Truth, a right-wing New Zealand newspaper, charging that in 1940 he was "booted out of the Canadian Officers Training Corps for lack of discipline." Not so" he said. "I failed to come up to academic and health standards, and was not considered leadership material." Which may come as a surprise to 21 million Canadians, since today Pierre Elliott Trudeau is their Prime Minister...
...martial tone, that quotation is not an excerpt from the maxims of Chairman Mao or Che Guevara's advice to guerrillas. It is a sample from the conventional wisdom of A Checklist for Plant Security, a 16-page pamphlet published by the National Association of Manufacturers and distributed to 250,000 businessmen. Its militant, military style is a direct response to the disturbing fact that U.S. business is now under siege-the target of a multipronged assault by forces ranging from outside political protesters to embezzling employees...
...need for histories and source books. Black bookstores have sprouted in major cities across the country, including New York, Detroit, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New Orleans. Articles are talking headily of a large "black book market." Black poets are being distributed in pamphlet as well as book form...