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...nation could afford to tamper with international trade in the past because the U. S. consumer paid the piper in higher prices and never knew the difference. But now these small interest groups are doing more than just milking domestic consumers; they are endangering the economic balance of the free world and may force some Western European nations to turn towards the some West European nations to turn towards the USSR...
When it came to oratory in the last campaign, no Tory was more outspoken than white-haired Lord Woolton, 68, the party chairman. From the hustings, he promised British housewives that the Tories would provide "more red meat," and would not tamper with Labor's food subsidies. Once back in office, the Tories behaved not as Lord Woolton promised, but as circumstances compelled. Down went the meat ration; up went food prices as Chancellor "Rab" Butler reduced food subsidies. "Uncle Fred" Woolton (who became a household name to Britons during his able wartime administration of food rationing) was plainly...
When Salesman Robert Whitney, head of the National Sales Executives organization, heard about this graveside elegy to the American traveling man, he rushed off to see Producer Stanley Kramer. Such a gloomy fadeout, Whitney argued, would horrify the peppy, up-to-the-minute salesman of today. Kramer would not tamper with the grim plot of his forthcoming film version of Death of a Salesman. But he offered a sop. Columbia would make a special ten-minute short for Whitney's organization, showing that salesmen these days are not like Willy Loman at all, but happy, well-trained technicians...
Values are left to personal "attitudes," and to tamper with these is to expose the teacher to the charge of that indoctrination" so notoriously exemplified by totalitarianism. It is a point of honor with the scholar that while the mind should be taught to examine evidence and weigh opposing arguments, or even to draw conclusions, this must be done without at any point insinuating a creed...
Values are left to personal "attitudes," and to tamper with these is to expose the teacher to the charge of that indoctrination" so notoriously exemplified by totalitarianism. It is a point of honor with the scholar that while the mind should be taught to examine evidence and weigh opposing arguments, or even to draw conclusions, this must be done without at any point insinuating a creed...