Word: sir
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...Sir: TIME has perpetuated one of America's greatest fallacies in its Essay "Of Truth and Money" by referring to money as "one reliable means of keeping score on the accomplishments of a person, a company or a country...
...Sir: You have the point of Aesop's mice-belling-the-cat fable [Nov. 29] exactly backwards, I think. If the fable really offered "the best put-down of the narrow-gauge expert," as you suggest, the mice would have to be narrow-gauge experts at something. But what? Certainly not cats, bells, belling nor, on the evidence, any other form of mouse defense Far from being "assembled experts," the young mice are obviously ill-informed brainstorm-ers-generalists of the most shallow kind-glibly tossing out solutions to a problem they don't begin to understand...
...Sir: There is an immutable law that says extra wealth can only be produced by each person exceeding his own needs in whatever he produces. Just as a farmer must grow more than his family eats in order to have something to sell, so must the factory worker turn out more value every hour than his hourly wage amounts to. The solution to the problems of rising costs and falling productivity is to put everyone back on either piecework or commission. This will eliminate featherbedding, slowdowns, etc., and at the same time raise our productivity nationwide...
...Sir: Your "Thanksgiving 1968: Mixed Blessings" [Nov. 29] commentary upon the American scene is far, far too optimistic. The materialistic clamor all about us has just about stilled the human spirit, and the only way the human spirit can now be heard above this deadening din is by way of dissent, protest and demonstration-peaceful and violent...
...Sir: Regarding the speculation as to the future of Mr. Robert Finch [Nov. 29], close adviser to President-elect Nixon: I have been a Robert Finch watcher since my freshman days at Inglewood High, Inglewood, Calif. ('43), when I observed this talented and qualified senior from afar. The graduating-class book of that year is a chronicle of the young Robert Finch-everything from president of the senior class and letterman in sports to star of the senior-class play (Death Takes a Holiday). But my most vivid recollection is, I am sure, one of his very first quotes...