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...Monthly article, aptly titled "Poisoned Politics," Elliot L. Richardson '41 asserts, "The most striking feature of the Massachusetts political scene...is the subordination of programs and principles to personal relationships. Friendships and enmities...courtesies and slights have an importance in determining political alignments that is exceeded only by the pocketbook...
Following the defeat of the Journal in the 30's, the Crime's next major opponent was the commercialtutoring schools. In 1939, when its conscience would have been hurt more by complacency than its pocketbook was injured by courage, the paper rejected advertising from what it called the "intellectual brothels" and began a crusade which saw their within a year...
...than in the 14 remarkable homes (including two apartments) owned or rented in the U.S. and abroad by the Kennedy clan. They are not remarkable as showpieces of architecture, interior design or luxury-in fact, considering the Kennedy wealth, they are relatively modest. The establishments are far beyond average pocketbook, and they have the kind of unobtrusive casualness that is far more expensive than it looks, but their total effect is one of warmth, not wealth. What their fellow citizens can see in the Kennedys' homes is taste-not of the avantgarde, pace-setting type, but the kind...
...justified too. The Peace Corps has challenged American youth as nothing before. Never has a program of international cooperation been brought down to a personal level a program in which an individual can make a contribution to furthering world peace with his hands and his heart, not just his pocketbook...
...Consumer spending will rise. Personal income stands at an alltime peak of $416.7 billion, but people have been banking 8% of their earnings-saving instead of spending, out of fear of unemployment. "Fewer layoffs will loosen the pocketbook," says American Motors Vice President Edward Cushman...