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...also took a swipe at claims that its own gigantic size menaces small businesses. During 1967, said G.M., it paid $9.4 billion, or 47% of its revenues, to 37,000 suppliers, three-quarters of whom employ fewer than 100 people. As for profits, G.M. freely conceded that its return on invested capital has been more consistent than that of other auto manufacturers in recent years. Nevertheless, the company noted that a 1966 Dun & Bradstreet survey found that companies in 19 of 71 categories had a higher return on "tangible net worth" than...
Wallace does not, of course, openly espouse racism, preferring to talk about law and order and let his listeners supply their own villains. Last week he complained that both the Democrats and the Republicans were trying to swipe the issue from him. "I was the first one to speak out on law and order, about a year and a half ago," he said. "Now they usin' our phrase." That is regrettably true, but Wallace can console himself with the knowledge that no one else has ridden the issue with quite the cowboy abandon that...
...pugnacity, McCarthy hit both at Johnson and at critics of Johnson's Viet Nam policy who have refused to join McCarthy's cause, most notably Bobby Kennedy. To prove that it really wants peace, McCarthy said, the Administration should replace Secretary of State Dean Rusk. His swipe at Kennedy was more subtle and yet more cutting: "There seems to be a disposition to wait for a kind of latter-day salvation-like four years from...
...East European television, Hungary's news presentation carries virtually no film footage, nor even voice reports from foreign correspondents. The lead item usually updates what the satellite networks call America's "dirty aggressive war against the brave, peace-loving Vietnamese." And often there will be a swipe at "the revanchist Kiesinger-Strauss government in Bonn...
...sometimes." Clearly, he felt that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee contributed more than its due. With a passing reference to the fact that, historically, the committee's chairmen have "almost invariably found a great deal wrong with the Executive in the field of foreign policy," he took a swipe at the present chairman, J. William Fulbright, who had just pushed through resolutions urging Johnson to take the Viet Nam issue to the United Nations and demanding a greater voice for Congress in committing U.S. troops abroad. "The committee had a big day yesterday," said Johnson archly. "They reported...