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...knows better than President Johnson that his Administration's fight against inflation so far has been patchwork. Last week, announcing the latest in a series of anti-inflation moves, the President rather ruefully told newsmen: "As we say down on the farm, 'maybe we ought to try to get by with some baling wire, patch things up,' to get by during this particular period, when there is such pressure on our economy...
Trouble is, the reserves are nothing more than a patchwork of 260 vaguely associated tribal areas, most of them tiny and widely separated from each other. They are backward and primitive, with few natural resources, and far from the centers of industry. And together they contain less than 14% of South Africa's total land. The remaining 86% is for white occupation only, and the millions of Africans now living there are officially classified as "temporary sojourners"-even though many of them are third-generation city dwellers who have never set eyes on their "homelands...
Brecht divided Galileo into fourteen scenes, beginning with the man's first tinkerings with astronomy and ending with his completion of the Discorsi shortly before his death. The patchwork construction is meant to distract you from emotional involvement lest you miss the lesson of each scene. Happily, Brecht's design falls through, and tension does build...
Ambassador Bunker's skilled patchwork may have forestalled major trouble, but it did little to soothe the violent hatreds that still divide the country. Outside Santo Domingo last week, a group of goons machine-gunned the car of a moderate provincial governor, killing him and seriously wounding three companions. In the capital, the Public Works Ministry was ransacked and machine-gunned by a 15-man group that identified itself as the "Democratic Anti-Communist Commando No. 1." At week's end, there were reports of similar raids in the usually placid interior city of Santiago...
...they leave us alone?" cries Shuman. "Why don't they get out and let the farmers run their own business?" By "they" he means Congress, the army of Government farm experts commanded by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, and what Shuman calls the "crazy-quilt patchwork of stopgap farm programs"-all hopelessly complex, all composted of political expediency, and all, in Shuman's view, a complete failure...