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...only does Hadley deal inadequately with strategy, but he also presents arms control in a shallow manner. Although he says several times that arms control is no panacea, his failure to explore the actual essence of arms control yields that impression. In other words, the reader puts down his book thinking that if only the nation were as bright as Hadley and consequently understood the need for arms control, it could then buy "it" downtown somewhere...
Other experts talk of massive Government-and industry-supported retraining programs as a cureall. But Max Horton, Michigan's director of employment security, is skeptical of this oft-repeated panacea: "I suppose that is as good as any way for getting rid of the unemployed-just keep them in retraining. But how retrainable are the mass of these unskilled and semiskilled unemployed? Two-thirds of them have less than a high school education. Are they interested in retraining? But most important, is there a job waiting for them when they have been retrained?" The new California Smith-Collier...
...Kennedy relied on his name for nomination. An able City Councillor from Boston, Gabriel Piemonte, tried for the Italian and local vote, with oposition by Roxbury politician Alfred Magaletta. The final candidate, Francis J. Kelley, plastered MTA walls with promises of lowered taxes; he proposed state Sweepstakes as a panacea...
...still is, racially integrated-not to satisfy any liberal belief, he says, but simply because it is natural: in so small a social organism, survival depends upon each man's becoming a good neighbor to the man next to him. For his adopted homeland, Barker offers neither panacea nor prophecy, only a prayerful Christian hope that the missions' work will not be rejected by black Africa...
...tide is definitely turning," said the frail old man. "My crackpot idea is becoming the idea that will save America from economic serfdom and will bring happiness and prosperity." The time was 1937, and Dr. Francis E. Townsend was almost right: his Townsend Plan, a Depression-born pension panacea, had caught the fancy of legions of elderly Americans. At flood tide, more than 4,000,000 members in 10,000 Townsend clubs gave the lanky, mesmeric country doctor immense political power, and their contributions, in a river of nickels and dimes, flowed in at the rate...