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...such state-taming decisions is rooted in the burgeoning nationalization of a country that was first united only by the Articles of Confederation, a compact so loaded in favor of the 13 independent-minded states that Congress could not tax, regulate commerce or conduct foreign relations. Only for the sake of national survival did the states...
...centuries has been the obsession of English painters. Rather, it is the minor and least honored theme of English art, literary painting, that has primed their vision. The time may be ripe for them. Among collectors and critics, weary of the inward-turned, paint-for-paint's-sake language of abstract expressionists, almost any lively new departure stirs serious interest...
...first six months of 1964, serious crime in the U.S. increased 15% over the same half year in 1963. In the suburbs-where many parents have moved "for the sake of their children" -the increase was a whopping...
...irresponsibility. The major programs of this sort are the war on poverty, medicare, and the beefing up of the Social Security plan. These new tacks on old New Deal programs can all be lumped under one heading: "Fresh meat for trie ravening wolves of society." For heaven's sake, let me and the people of the U.S. stand on our own two feet...
Eager to impress, the Japanese plied the bankers with No plays, Koto recitals, Bunraku puppet shows, trips to the countryside, geisha parties and tea with Emperor Hirohito. They even introduced a new cigarette called IMF. Between the crowded plenums and the warm sake sessions, the international moneymen performed some important business-and witnessed a struggle for control of the world's monetary leadership...