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...Eggs (1 dozen) $.14 $2.75 $1.79 Butter (1 lb.) $.24 $4.70 $4.49 Beef (1 lb.) $.07 $1.37 $2.99 Coffee (1 lb.) on $.07 $1.37 $1.35 the commodity exchange Kodak camera* $5 $98 $120 Lionel $6 $117 $150 electric train Train ticket** $13 $254 $43 First-class stamp...
Nevertheless, Franklin Roosevelt stands out among the century's political leaders. With his first-class temperament, wily manipulations and passion for experimentation, he's the jaunty face of democratic values. Thus we pick him as the foremost statesman and one of three finalists for Person of the Century. That may seem, to non-Americans, parochial. True, but this was, as our magazine's founder Henry Luce dubbed it in 1941, the American Century--politically, militarily, economically and ideologically...
Gandhi's life of civil disobedience began while he was a young lawyer in South Africa when, because he was a dark-skinned Indian, he was told to move to a third-class seat on a train even though he held a first-class ticket. He refused, and ended up spending the night on a desolate platform. It culminated in 1930, when he was 61, and he and his followers marched 240 miles in 24 days to make their own salt from the sea in defiance of British colonial laws and taxes. By the time he reached the sea, several...
Above all, Roosevelt possessed a magnificent sense of timing. He understood when to invoke the prestige of the presidency and when to hold it in reserve. He picked a first-class military team--General George Marshall, Admiral Ernest King, General Henry Arnold and Admiral William Leahy--and gave its members wide latitude to run the war. Yet at critical junctures he forced action, and almost all those actions had a salutary effect on the war. He personally made the hotly debated decision to invade North Africa; he decided to spend $2 billion on an experimental atom bomb; and he demanded...
...citizens through tax cuts, it would be spent productively? The President and Congress elected next year will of course not pass either plan in toto. Whatever initial deal they strike can only be a compromise that may well intensify rather than end the debate. Ah, but what a refreshingly first-class debate to have...