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...polls showing that only 29% of the public has confidence in business today. The problem goes beyond a simple rejection of the Establishment or a distrust of growth that provides too much quantity and too little quality, he said. A more basic explanation is that business has "an almost unbroken record of opposing legislation that the public thinks is good. The Sherman Antitrust Act, the Federal Reserve Act, the Federal Trade Commission Acts, the Securities Exchange Act - we fought every one and lost...
...nominated Gerald R. Ford to be Vice President, the Ford family has made two important decisions. One was not to move out of the four-bedroom house in Alexandria, Va., that they built 18 years ago and is now worth about $65,000. The other was to keep an unbroken 16-year family tradition of getting together at their condominium in Vail, Colo., for two weeks of skiing over Christmas. "Ours has been a very close family life," explains Betty Ford, "but that's about the only time all of us can get together these days...
...this year's crops, especially corn, will be large enough to pull down food prices only if farmers enjoy ideal rain and sunshine, no sudden frosts, an ample supply of fuel and fertilizer and an absence of blight. Such an unbroken string of happy circumstances is as rare in agriculture as eight passes in a row are at the crap table...
Ginsberg once spent an almost unbroken month in Grollier's, reading through its selection of modern poetry and holding readings for its patrons and curious passers...
THERE WAS ONCE a game made out of movie star gossip. The object was to try to list everyone that counted in Hollywood--the experts could do it alphabetically--according to who slept with whom. And the winner completed an unbroken chain of names, an incest ring. I heard it rumored that one die-hard fan had played the game with Harvard gossip, and won. But it's most likely just a rumor...