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...failure of the British economy to meet its challenges: its root troubles lie in listless management, the wasteful use of labor, small-scale and inefficient production and indifferent salesmanship. At the heart of these manifestations is less of an inherent economic weakness than a national attitude of insularity, a stubborn refusal from top to bottom to believe that Britain's standard of living-and its standing in a prospering world -depends on how much it can sell to a world that is increasingly choosy about what it buys from whom...
...Ultimate Goal. MLF is a frail vessel for carrying such a multitude of problems. In itself, MLF is not likely to solve the much larger problems between the Old and New Worlds. But if the U.S. as its stubborn champion had made it part of a truly comprehensive and inspiring plan for a future united European force, it would have meant more- and would have deflated De Gaulle's vague talk about "creating Europe." In a sense, both the U.S. and France are wrong in the current controversy, paradoxically not because their policies are so different but because they...
Less than a week before that statement, Buddhist Spokesman Thich Tam Chau had flatly announced that the South Vietnamese government of Premier Tran Van Huong "will have to go." Three days after the statement, a Buddhist communique called the Premier "stupid, a traitor, a fat, stubborn man without any policy." In Saigon, Huong replied pluckily: "If the situation gets out of hand, we must again use force. They simply want to control the government. The Viet Cong are also trying to overthrow this government. We can't allow the Buddhist leaders to do this for them...
...growing, and some closed-circuit transmissions for industrial and medical groups have been permitted. Reportedly, Verwoerd may use the promise of TV as a vote-getting device to enhance his party's expected victory in the next election. And it is even beginning to dawn on some stubborn Nationalists that television, under strict government control, could be a powerful tool to spread their apartheid gospel in black and white, and maybe even color...
Actually, the Democratic emphasis on nose counting overlooks one stubborn fact: bills still must get out of committee before those floor votes can be cast -and the committees are still considerably dominated by Southern Democrats. Not even the L.B.J. landslide is likely to make Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills like medicare, or goad Rules Chairman Howard Smith into smoothing the legislative path of liberal bills toward the House floor...