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...year's extravaganza got under way with a parade down Lexington's main street with bands, floats and real live jackasses. George Wallace's float, naturally, was a yellow school bus loaded with his mock delegates toting serious placards: REDNECK POWER. Another realistic touch was a token mob riding in a Jeep bearing the sign: MOCK
...that everybody's mind was controlled, and everybody was glad of it. The most powerful mind controllers in the world were parents, and they did the most damage...Newborn children were little computers waiting to be programmed." Unfortunately, such insight does not pervade the book; it merely provides token philosophy. If you're looking for fundamentals, there's always the bibliography...
Thus, the movements persist. In Chile, the M.I.R. (Movement of the Revolutionary Left), which is militant but has seldom employed murderous tactics, has made a strong appeal to landless peasants in the southern part of the country. With only token resistance from the police, they have seized more than 150 farms and illegally occupied 2,000 or so apartments in government housing projects this year. Marxist President, Salvador Allende Gossens, has been reluctant to move decisively against the squatters for fear of further weakening his already shaky left-wing coalition of support. Last week, a massive protest parade in Santiago...
Pinheads. At the same time, Allende has been trying to shore up his country's international credit rating. He has begun to make token payments on some of Chile's obligations to foreign firms, including the Anaconda Co., which last week dropped court-ordered liens against certain Chilean properties-including holdings of LAN-Chile, the state airline-with assets in the U.S. Allende has also paid at least half of the $2.2 million in interest due the Boise Cascade Corp., which owned an electric company that was sold to the Chilean government in 1970. In Paris, no agreement...
...Having myself cited Justice Holmes' dictum that taxes are the price of civilization, I agree with you that our unwillingness to pay more than token taxes leaves us a good deal short on civilization...