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...forces, the majority of retired people and the majority of senior officers in the civilian components." Furthermore, contends Marshall, "there is intense dissatisfaction" with McNamara in Congress, "due to the feeling that he has arrogated powers not properly his, thereby reducing congressional review of defense issues to a rubber stamp." Protests Marshall: "The dignity of man at his work is a value which the Secretary does not understand...
...disturbed long by mere economic questions, Sukarno was more interested in tenure. So as to be able to cope with any future disorders, he had his rubber stamp Congress "appoint" him to the presidency for life. "This decision might not entirely live up to certain constitutional requirements," harrumphed an Indonesian Cabinet Minister, "but it should be remembered that it is a political revolutionary product and not a legalistic product." With his continued career thus assured, Sukarno flew off for what was described as a long rest in Japan, Belgrade, Vienna, Rome, and France, which he is always prone to enjoy...
...usually traditional U.S. Post Office Department last week recognized the existence of contemporary art. To Uruguayan-born Artist Antonio Frasconi. 44. went the department's $500 prize for his winning entry in a contest to pick a stamp to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences. Other nations prize art on stamps; Mexico has for decades used striking and sometimes beautiful work. But only with Postmaster General J. Edward Day has the U.S. strayed so radically from the more usual practice of using the department's own generally competent, occasionally torpid designers...
...British are succumbing to the U.S. mania for trading stamps, and another Battle of Britain is under way. Thirty trading-stamp companies are already in operation, giving out stamps in 35,000 stores. Britain's Green Shield, which sells 60% of all the stamps in circulation, has done so well in four years that it has hiked its sales force from 12 to 250, doubled its premiums catalogue to 64 pages and moved from cramped quarters into a 13-story London headquarters...
Britain's trade associations and small shopkeepers are vociferously fighting against the stamps. Says a spokesman for the 12,000-store Multiple Grocers Association: "We have had the advantage of seeing what happened with stamps in the U.S. You have an initial competitive advantage; then your rivals have stamps and you lose the advantage. But you're stuck with the stamps." They haven't seen anything yet. The U.S.'s MacDonald Stamp Co. (Plaid Stamps) is exploring the British market, and giant Sperry & Hutchinson (Green Stamps) will launch an assault this summer. More immediately. Great Universal...