Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits and Outrages Around the World in Twenty Primaries As the campaign approaches, the Democrats are awakened from a despondent slumber with a rush of commitment, and a clarion call to...
...Sweden 20...
...Tidbits and Outrages will be a regular feature...
...And if things go well in New Hampshire and on this “Tour A,” you can extend the dialogue with 10 extra days on “Tour B,” with the residents of Bali and the Philippines, while the residents in Florida are deciding at the polls...
...For the folks alarmed about the Africa question, there is the “East Africa Mini Safari,” a fact-finder on the game reserves for 22 days, only $1465...
...Korea 43...
...Ford Motor 29...
...Johnson’s was government by the sly...
...Mobil Oil 45...
...Brazil 14...
...Belgium 2 1. Argentina 22...
...An ad for nine exotic foreign tours invites us to “travel with Americans for Democratic Action” as the battle lines are drawn...
...Venezuela 35...
...His is government by the grim...
...The ADA has not yet announced its itinerary for that crucial contest...
...Anyone hung up on the war may find himself much better prepared to counter the arguments of Scoop Jackson after the “Orient Introduction,” 24 days, leaving April 15...
...Philippines 4 1. Turkey 42...
...Be It Resolved By The 92nd Congress Democratic Club: That the Democratic Leadership of the House of Representatives of the 92nd Congress is requested and urged to develop a program whereby first-term Democratic Members of Congress receive advance notice of important legislation likely to receive Party support and, thus, likely to become law, and that such interested Members be afforded an opportunity to join in the sponsorship of such legislation in order to compile a substantial legislative record on which to run for re-election...
...For those who feel the earliest commitment, for example, the ADA offers the chance to hit the hustings on the “Mayan Heritage Trail,” which runs from Chichen Itza to Oaxaca, Mexico...
...There will be deluxe hotels in the cities, but only “the best available in the game reserves” for the staunch grass-rooters...
...Before the hunger and malnutrition binge we were on, it was integration and segregation and we were all hepped up about that, you recall...
...Netherlands 19...
...Pakistan 25...
...Sears Roebuck 3 8, Greece 39...
...AT&T (in billions) $927.6 46 8 .O 185.6 172.7 138.0 111.8 87.3 86.0 75.0 50.0 46.1 39.7 33.7 32.5 31.6 31.6 30.7 29.8 29.4 24.1 21.0 19.6 18.8 17.2 17.0 27...
...Well right now, I think that we’re at the crest of what I would call the agitation curve in this environmental binge we’re on...
...Poland 12...
...Jackson’s supporters are likely to opt for the 15-day “Independence Day in Israel” affair, while other activists will draft working papers on the Canary Islands holiday or plot strategy on the “Ski Trip to Chamonix...
...Iran 36...
...Traveling with the ADA should get you back in time to toast the winner of the Democratic nomination and rest up for the presidential tussle...
...Spain 18...
...Czechoslovakia 15...
...As Jim Hightower writes in The New Democrat, “now is not a time for palliatives from the Democratic Party-it is a time for passion...
...Royal Dutch-Shell 33...
...Norway 34...
...General Electric 40...
...These warm-ups are not evidence of a complete commitment, such as that provided by the “Classic World Tour,” which leaves right after the Rhode Island primary and gets back 34 days later-just in time to congratulate the winner in Massachusetts...
...Denmark 30...
...Chrysler 46...
...As Lyndon Johnson feared the free play of reasoned debate, so Richard Nixon seems to fear the consequences of concern, compassion, and a generous spirit...
...These fellows are really hurting because we’ve forgotten about that...
...This 15-day whistlestop, which costs only $695, gives us ample time to reflect on the Party’s Latin American plank with the mayor of Uxmal...
...Colombia 49...
...Australia 16...
...From Checkerboard Square Earl Butz, before an agricultural advertising and marketing seminar, on April 26,1971: It’s a typical American characteristic to over-react to crisis...
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...Tidbits and Outrages Around the World in Twenty Primaries As the campaign approaches, the Democrats are awakened from a despondent slumber with a rush of commitment, and a clarion call to action...
...The problem, of course, is how to channel all this energy, and just two pages beyond Hightower’s exhortation, we find the solution from the Americans for Democratic Action...
...IT&T 50...
...Parkinson’s Pentagon Orr Kelly has recently noted in the Washington Star that the Pentagon now has more three-star and four-star generals and admirals to command a force of 2.7 million men that it had to command 12 million soldiers during World War 11...
...For those more concerned with Asian policy, there is the “South Pacific Coral Route,” which takes one through Tahiti and gets into Fiji in time for the New Hampshire primary-at a price of $1862...
...David Broder in The Washington Post, on the eighth anniversary of the assassination of John F. KenneOne remembers him quoting on so many nights in that campaign against Richard Nixon, the words he loved from Franklin Roosevelt’s 1936 acceptance speech: “Governments can err, Presidents can make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the coldblooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in a different scale...
...East Germany 13...
...Standard Oil(N.J...
...Finland 37...
...Mexico 17...
...India 11...
...IBM 44...
...In order to give due credit for achievements and leadership, Congressman Romano L. Mazzoli guided the following resolution through the 92nd Congress Democratic Club on September 15,1971: WHEREAS, in the 92nd Congress the Democratic Party enjoys a majority of the membership of the House of Representatives, and WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the people of the United States that this majority be maintained or expanded in future elections...
...Chile 51...
...Not a cent of money nor an ounce of power was to be wasted in the effort to put a good candidate into nomination, and hopefully, in the White House...
...Their money’s dried up, the support is dried up...
...and WHEREAS, the development of a substantial legislative record is a maior assistance in re-election campaigns...
...Thailand 48...
...Gross National Products of Countries and Net Sales of Corporations Interspersed, by Rank as of 1970: 1. United States 2. Soviet Union 3. Japan 4. West Germany 5. France 6. United Kingdom 7. Italy 8. China 9. Canada 10...
...Austria 3 1, Indonesia 32...
...Switzerland 23, General Motors 24...
...As with the Memo of the Month, we encourage our readers to contribute to this section of the magazine...
...Better the occasional faults of a government living in the spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference...
...And the people who are really suffering from this environmental binge we are on now are the integrationists...
...Unilever 47...
...Texaco 16.8 16.6 15.0 14.6 13.2 12.8 10.8 10.1 10.1 9.9 9.7 9.3 9.0 8.7 8.5 8.2 7.8 7.5 7.3 7.0 6.9 6.8 6.6 6.4 6.3 6.3...
...Those words have more force now-in this city of frozen-faced menthan they had then...
Vol. 3 • January 1972 • No. 11
