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...have just reported the highest earnings in their history; the first-quarter, after-tax profits of 669 U.S. companies averaged 12% above those of a year ago. It will be the difficult job of the Price Commission to determine whether to promote fast profit growth in order to stoke further economic expansion, or to hold back the earnings rise in hopes of lowering the rate of inflation...
...that all that the Russians have done to stoke Washington's fears. U.S. intelligence sources reported that the Soviets last week conducted another test of a key offensive weapon under the seemingly innocuous designation Cosmos 365. They sent aloft a giant S59 rocket, apparently carrying as its payload a mockup of an FOBS (for fractional orbital bombardment system), or space bomb, which could release its deadly cargo on virtually any terrestrial target. The U.S. has no such weapon and no defense against...
LONG after the fire at Al Aqsa mosque had been put out, Arab leaders last week seemed determined to stoke it with the most inflammatory rhetoric since the Six-Day War of 1967. "There is no hope, no way except through force," Egypt's President Nasser said in a broadcast to his soldiers about the fire, which damaged the revered mosque in Israeli-ruled Jerusalem. "Hopes for a peaceful solution have been cruelly shattered," declared Jordan's King Hussein. "Now that all peaceful methods have been exhausted, I appeal to you to declare jihad [holy war]," cried Saudi...
...self." Because Mao and a few around him suffer from this "sur vivor paranoia," China "must be made to convulse." Thus the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was contrived by Mao and his aging comrades in a quest for the rebirth of zealous Communism in China. To stoke the fires of fanaticism, the leaders called forth specific images of hate: "American imperialism," "bourgeois remnants," and "modern revisionism," and turned the Red Guard loose in the streets...
Shadow Play. In many cases, the options in Milwaukee are simply yes or no decisions. Gallerygoers, for instance, have a choice of contemplating Andy Warhol's peeled version of a silk-screened banana, or admiring the unpeeled one. Or they can stoke Robert Watts's Stamp Machine with either nickels or dimes. (Having been removed from daily use to the higher realms of art in 1963, Watts has replaced its now outdated U.S. Government stamps with stamps of his own design.) They can strum the weird musical instruments of Francois and Bernard Baschet, but the atonal sounds evoked...