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Muddy & Muddled. The vote by the trade unionists was a symptom of how deeply demoralized Labor has become in the wake of three successive election defeats by the Tories. Neither Gaitskell, with his "if-I-may-be-permitted-to-say-so" speaking style, nor the other practical politicians of the Labor Party have provided leadership to offset the doctrinaire Socialists and pacifists that have always comprised a major element of the party from its founding. These, abetted by Communists and fellow travelers and organized by such left-wing Laborite M.P.s as Michael Foot and Anthony Greenwood, have seized...
Seven days after the end of the Organization of American States meeting in Costa Rica, the U.S. this week goes to a hemispheric Committee of 21 development conference in Colombia. It is' a logical progression from symptom to cause. The symptom is the wide emotional response in Latin America to the nostrums proposed by Fidel Castro; the cause is the growing despair among Latin Americans over their inability to make the big breakthrough out of poverty and backwardness...
However long the profit squeeze lasts, it is not a new phenomenon to U.S. businessmen, who faced it in the 1957-58 recession and learned to live with it. Although a profit squeeze is a symptom of such major problems as foreign competition, automation and changing patterns of living, it can also be a sign that a company-or an industry-is growing sluggish and sloppy. Many of the moves that companies make to combat profit squeezes are moves that should have been made be fore to keep them trim and healthy. Thus a period of profit squeeze-like...
...unheeded. Other Connecticut newspapers wrote praising editorials; dozens of strangers phoned to congratulate her. One sympathetic Manchester school board member estimated that 200 other bright youngsters missed the honor roll at Manchester High this year for the same reason Charlene did: low physical education grades. "This is a symptom of what's wrong with our school system," said the board member. "We're not rewarding academic achievement. We're rewarding the best 'wellrounded' samplers." But other board members seemed content to leave the problem to a committee, which took it up several months ago after...
...woman of 37 was admitted to Detroit Receiving Hospital because she could hardly breathe. A bizarre symptom was the cyanosis of her hands and feet: it ended so abruptly at the wrists and ankles that she might have been wearing blue gloves and socks. This indicated heart damage. The doctors gave her all the heart stimulants they could think of, but within eleven hours she died. It turned out that she had been on the bottle (and off food) for three weeks. Postmortem examination showed a heart so damaged by beriberi as to induce shoshin...