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...revolution just as surely as removing toxins from the body would wipe out antitoxins. I know of nothing that promotes a greater satisfaction with the U.S Constitution and its guarantees than listening to the long-range dialecticians of the Kremlin whose thinking is usually conditioned by the amount of static on their short-wave receiving sets...
This mood does not make Manager Sloan call for a managerial revolution. He thinks he knows a better way. "A dynamic economy is essential to progress and the continuation of free enterprise. ... A static economy means decay and ultimate regimentation. . . . Some see danger in bigness. They fear the concentration of economic power. . . . That is in a degree true. It simply means, however, that industrial management must expand its horizon of responsibility. ... It must consider the impact of its operations on the economy as a whole in relation to the social and economic welfare of the entire community. . . . Those charged with...
Publishers often complain that the South writes more books than it buys. All over the U. S., static small-town life is the frustration and inspiration of bright young talents. But the South's small towns inspire the most feverish talents of all. Led by William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. Southerners write with brilliant intensity, but their subject matter runs to horror-sexual, psychological or economic...
...evening last week an operator at the Miami station of Tropical Radio swung his receiver to the 36-metre band. It was 10:38 p.m., and the static was as noisy as an applauding audience. But faintly the operator heard: SSS . . . SSS . . .-the code for submarine attack...
...Venice, Fla., a farmer complained of static in his radio. A repairman found two rattlesnakes inside...