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...essential reason for these problems was that the U.S. tried to accomplish an uncommon amount and strained its resources of manpower, materials, machines and money. In 1966, the nation simultaneously expanded the war in Viet Nam, extended a host of domestic programs, and escalated its standard of living. Considering all the demands put upon it, the economy performed remarkably well. The output of goods and services, growing by well over $1 billion a week, swelled from $681 billion to $739 billion; the number of jobs rose by 2,200,000 and 75 million Americans were at work; the average income...
Frustrations like these were not uncommon. Yet they resulted as much from the fragmented structure of the HDC as from concerted faculty attempts to exert control. HDC membership meetings were loud, long and fruitless--particularly since no amount of discussion could overcome the organization's overriding problem: lack of money...
...hunt for minerals. In the past three months alone, 130 mining companies have been formed, mostly to mine the craze for penny dreadfuls on the frantic Vancouver Stock Exchange, where, since trading opens at 6 a.m. to be on schedule with Toronto and New York, it is not uncommon to see tuxedoed partygoers stagger in for a fling of late action...
...Republican candidate, spent only $239,000, chiefly because, as the choice of Governor William Scranton, he never had opposition serious enough to warrant the expenditure of really large funds. Though Shapp set a primary spending record that will probably stand for some time, big campaign expenditures are not uncommon in Pennsylvania-or, for that matter, in other parts of the U.S. Increasingly, they pose a disquieting problem for the candidate who lacks a massive bankroll...
Something Soulless. In Jerusalem he fought cunningly to minimize his role. He did not have the ideological courage to admit what he had once said to his friends in Argentina: that he had taken "uncommon joy" in catching these enemies and transporting them to their destination. "I lived in this stuff, otherwise I would have remained only an assistant, a cog, something soulless." Now he disclaimed responsibility, insisted that he had indeed been a cog, merely transmitting orders. But the evidence was crushing that he had acted, as witnesses put it, as "the great forwarding agent of death," the efficient...