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Further ploys, including lying about McNamara's schedule on Monday and the use of decoy cars, failed to frustrate our attempts to confront McNamara in public at Quincy House. They did, however, succeed in turning the planned silent confrontation into a mass of running people angry at the deception characteristic of both the government's Vietnam policy and the Institute's evasion of its responsibility to the public. In spite of this, and of McNamara's "tougher-than-thou" attitude, he suffered nothing worse than considerable, and deserved, embarrassment. Meanwhile rowdy students managed to create the sound and smell...
...Harvard community. If the purpose of the student gathering was to convey certain views to Secretary McNamara -- and the manner in which the meeting was conducted leaves one with serious doubts about the validity of that premise--one can hardly think of a way less calculated to succeed and more likely to alienate the listener. Understandably Secretary McNamara, who seemed initially...
...Elbow. Erhard's decision to avoid a showdown brought sighs of relief from the Brutuses within his party who had been fearful of the consequences to their own reputations if they bloodied their hands in public. But there was little chance that Erhard would succeed in forming a new coalition government...
...controls, Communism is still basically an economic philosophy. Because of that fact, Eastern Europe today is caught up in a brutal but visionary economic revolution. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, reforms - in various degrees and diverging directions - are rippling through all East European countries. If the reforms succeed, they will not only break the glacial grip of Stalin ist "command economics" but reshape the societies and political structures of the Continent's entire Communist world...
...myriad regulations that will take effect on Jan. 1. These include such nuts-and-bolts matters as the exact level of taxation to be charged on enterprise profits, the exact proportion of bonuses, the exact changes in various wholesale prices arising from the end of subsidy. They may not succeed: the "oxen" with their Stalinist axes have cut down reform before and may stall it again before the New Year rolls around...