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Blueprint of Restraint. As for the contents of his message, Johnson remains convinced that a nation whose G.N.P. is approaching $800 billion can simultaneously fight a war in Viet Nam and advance his Great Society at home. "We are going to have a better America," he recently told some associates. "We've made mistakes, of course, but we are determined to correct them. We're proud of our programs, and we're going to keep improving them. If any of you think I'm going to make the kids in the Head Start program, the poor...
...career? Hardly. The irrepressible iconoclast bounced back, not by showing restraint but by being more boisterous than ever. As a TV interviewer, he became a master of the elegant insult. Even the people who hate him love to watch him. London's "Pop Socrates," as he is called, is equally intemperate in his writings, some of which have now been collected in a book, The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge (Simon & Schuster, $5.95). Muggeridge, says London Critic Colin Maclnnes, has the "gift of absolutely compulsive readability...
...guidelines for wage and price increases are, in the light of some 1966 labor contracts negotiated with Administration approval, about as up-to-date as last year's newspaper. Nevertheless, the Administration intends to carry on what an aide calls "a jawbone campaign" urging wage restraint and a return to 3.2%. The reason is that wages are a key factor in the fight on inflation, and in 1967 no less than 32 major contracts will be up for renegotiation...
Never in history has a nation applied military power with more painstaking precision and reasoned restraint than the U.S. has in its bombing of North Viet Nam. The only targets that U.S. pilots may attack are the enemy's men and materiel heading south, the roads and trails they take and the weaponry thrown at American aircraft. From prestrike photo reconnaissance to leaflet warnings dropped in advance, every effort is made to avoid hitting civilians and residential areas. Nowhere is the effort greater than around Hanoi, the Red capital, currently home to some 300,000 people. It was precisely...
...years on radio and TV, the Bell Telephone Hour played duenna to the world's best music and most of its best contemporary performers, from Pons and Pinza to Toscanini and Tebaldi. The show had all the virtues of the duenna -care, good taste, restraint and fondness for her charges -but also the one vice: it was often pretty dull. Producer Henry Jaffe recalls: "We'd put a performer on a bleak stage in front of a dirty curtain and say, 'Perform!' " Perform they did, often superbly, but Bell began to feel its image had become...