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...efficient secret" Crossman meant that the real struggle for power must usually be hidden. This phenomenon has no analogy in the American government. The U. S. Constitution sets out to sabotage the "efficient secret": the purpose of that document is to bring the struggle for power out into the open. Parties and party conventions flourish here, of course, but the basic decisions of government do not occur in them. They result from the all-too-public, often stalemated dialogue between the President and the Congress...
...there it is, brimful of lies and prevarication. Yes, before Castro, "Cuba was exporting cattle." Naturally, if big U. S.-owned ranches are raising livestock with all the modern techniques, then "Cuba" goes listed as "exporting cattle." But not because there was a true surplus. Few Cubans ate that beef-it all went to the profitable export trade. Senores Magarolas, also, neglect to mention the fact that Cuba was importing rice, eggs, vegetable oils, tomatoes, potatoes, beans-plus cornflakes and Coke. Cuba's sugar plantations had among the lowest yield in the world; there were no technological innovations since...
...over the inhumane clubbing of the cuddly, snow-white pups that takes place every March off Canada's east c o a s t , t h e C a n a d i a n g o v e r n m e n t t h o u g h t i t h a d f i n a l l y f o u n d a solution that would muffle the inter national protests. Henceforth, the Ministry of Fisheries ruled, seal hunters on the ice floes of the Gulf of St. Law rence would kill...
...four two-man Harvard teams were loose and confident when they arrived at N.U.'s Docksen Hall. They helped put up tables and watched in admiration as a jock from N. U. strutted around the gym, toying with an imaginary paddle...
Watson, a freestyle specialist, Thursday swam the 500-free in 4:49.8, failing to place. John Kinsella, a 17-year-old high school student from Hinsdale, Illinois, set a U. S. record in the event with...