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...Because military elites often play major roles in the early stages of the new states, their demands for more equipment can seldom be ignored. "No military branch wants to be saddled with old or obsolete equipment that reflects adversely on the dignity of the service," dryly notes a 1973 Rand Corp. study on the transfer of arms to Latin America...
Music for Woodwind Quintet; Norman Letvin, Carol Rand, Frank Selvin, Michael Tabak, Cyrus Stewart, and Carl Schialkjer; Eliot Library...
FRIEDMAN DOES not speak for all libertarians; the movement is too diverse for that. His book is an addition to the growing shelf of works that seek to outline a future consistently libertarian society. USC philosophy professor John Hospers, Ayn Rand, and Murray Rothbard are others who have written similar books. Many have hailed Rothbard's scholarly "For a New Liberty" as the libertarian manifesto and he has become the leading theoretician of the movement...
Friedman's book is interesting because it uses novel arguments on a different level than the strongly challenging theories of Rand and the carefully consistent, scholarly analysis of Rothbard. Friedman explains his ideas in an entertaining style of writing meant to attract the college student. The major shortcomings of the book are Friedman's failure to make explicit the philosophic and moral base of his ideas as other libertarians have done so meticulously. Nor does Friedman answer the traditional questions about monopoly and poverty in a laissez-faire economy as completely as Rothbard does in his economic treatises...
...streetcar conductor in Lewiston, Longley is the model of the self-made man, the kind of person who jogs a mile every morning, needs only three hours of sleep a night, and avows that Ayn Rand is his favorite author. A fervent believer in the virtues of hard work, Longley as a youth labored in a textile mill to support his widowed mother and five sisters and brothers. After graduating from Bowdoin College, he went on to build one of the biggest insurance agencies in the state...