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...Romm notes, the most powerful push for a new form of journalism has been a growing political alienation to a stagnant, wasteful society. Historians will puzzle for years on the strangely a-typical developments among the children of a well-fed, money-obsessed American bourgeoisie. The Open Conspiracy, despite the obvious limitations of its gentle bias, and occasional over-sensationalization of its material, provides an interesting addition to a limited number of books on an exceedingly fascinating subject...
Last summer Sihanouk made the two men who eventually overthrew him the principal figures in a "movement of salvation" designed to energize Cambodia's stagnant economy. Both had been key officials for some time. Lon Nol is a quiet, pragmatic 56-year-old general who has been Cambodia's best-known anti-Communist for many years. He became head of the national police in 1951 and entered the army in 1952, taking part in operations against the Viet Minh invaders until the end of the French war in Indochina. Three years after joining the army, he became...
...society-the supercorporation in its computerized citadels of gleaming cold plastic, the angry cells of student revolutionaries, the frighteningly busy shops of unsmiling L. A. gun merchants, the calmly professional violence of city jail-clearly delimits who stomps and who gets stomped. The bastions of power, Antonioni says, are stagnant, sadistic, and vengefully jealous of youthful vigor. The existential point sounds very much like Ken Kesey's argument that the price of really living in America is death...
Democrats chafe bitterly under the stagnant leadership of Speaker John W. Mc-Cormack, 78. In a party caucus last week, Representative Jerome R. Waldie of California offered a resolution of no confidence in McCormack's stewardship. Waldie's thrust was laid aside by a vote of 192 to 23, but the appearance of overwhelming support for McCormack was misleading. Fully aware that Waldie had no chance of success, many reform-minded members held their fire, but hoped to fight with more success another...
...conglomerate merger in history. After paying a very rich $85 a share -or a total $425 million for control of the company-Ling has seen his investment tumble by 59%. That Ling would now choose to get out of growth businesses and stay with a troubled company in a stagnant industry seems surprising. But LTV stands to collect some $17.5 million in dividends from J. & L. for last year, while Braniff paid only $5.1 million and Okonite $2.1 million...