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Negative to Positive. Some classical economists, in full agreement with this enthusiasm for revising some obsolete clichés about Bigness, would suggest that the way for the Government to encourage Big Business is to let it alone. Lilienthal takes a different tack. He proposes that Congress pass a Basic Economic Act pro claiming its prime concern with "productivity and the ethical and economic distribution of this productivity." Lilienthal's law would automatically repeal "the Sherman and Clayton acts, and all other existing laws, administrative policies and judicial interpretations of the antitrust laws" insofar as they were inconsistent with...
...saved by the impact of the untutored but emphatic Clooney personality At night, when the daily shots were screened, it became apparent that she was pulling the yarn together. Paramount took a new tack: in the course of shooting, it reoriented the picture toward Newcomer Clooney...
Spinning Passenger. It was this experience which inspired Willy to tack a motor on his rucksack parachute and turn it into a strap-on-the-back flying machine. It was not an entirely new idea. One devised by the Wehrmacht, for example, worked nicely, except that it spun the passenger almost as fast as it spun its rotors, depositing the dizzy victim on the ground in no fit condition to fight for der Führer. Willy devoted most of his postwar resources to exterminating such bugs: he sold his house and car, hocked his radio shop...
...functioning vague and inconsistent. Writers, critics, publishers and various literati most frequently fall in this camp. They question the value of banning a 25 cent reprint edition of a work, while allowing the two or three dollar hard cover edition to go scot free, for instance. On the other tack, when one publisher's book came under the prohibitory advice of the Committee, he claimed that the entire group was set up on the "perilous presumption" that 29 individuals can act as censors...
Your precise comments on the election, "The Will of the People" are well put, elegantly stated. Would that Ike tear it out, tack it up, keep it in mind-always...