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...redemptions over purchases rose to $250 million, up from the record $194 million in March. Investors are cashing in their shares partly because the funds performed poorly in 1969 and 1970, though they did better than the market averages last year. However, some funds have been able to prosper in the face of the industry depression...
Business efforts dealing with this community crisis may not only be reasonably related to the long-term profit-making potential of the corporation and its long-term ability to survive and prosper. They may also reflect the businessman's appraisal of the public acceptance-expectation-demand process and his decision as a business matter that it is 'good business' to assume some responsibility for the community in which the corporation functions...
...universally recognized as the capital of capitalism, the land of free markets and the home of resourceful entrepreneurs. More than any other country, it has been known for leaving an entrepreneur free to decide prices for his products and set wages for his workers, free to grow and prosper-and free to go bankrupt if he failed. Historically, the U.S. Government has often done much to strengthen those twin pillars of free enterprise, private ownership and unfettered competition. Americans have grown so accustomed to living under free enterprise that they rarely even think in terms of class struggles, expropriation...
...have already made known our concern about the shaky condition of the Design School, and while opinions differ on its current direction, it remains clear to us that the School will never prosper while the bad taste of the past three years, and these proceedings in particular, lingers. We have noted with regret the lack of judgment shown both by the Dean and Professors Isaacs, Nash and Vigier--the three men who dominated the Planning Department in the decade preceeding the crisis of 1969-70. And we stand by our conviction that the interests of the School would be best...
...people, offering clues to the national unconscious. Superman's enormous popularity might be looked upon as signaling the beginning of the end for the Horatio Alger myth of the self-made man. In the modern world, he seems to say, only the man with superpowers can survive and prosper. Still, though comics are indeed a popular art form, it is going a bit far to compare, as Critic Maurice Horn does, Gasoline Alley to Goethe's Wilhelm Meister and Little Orphan Annie to the works of Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo. As Mammy Yokum might say: "Some folks...