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...least, there seems to be much wrong with Goldwater's argument. Its additional difficulty is that it just won't sell. First, it is too formalistic: the Constitution does not impress the average voter half as much as constructive action. Second, it is too far removed from reality: Goldwater never tells us how various services are to be performed once the Federal government gets its "unconstitutional" nose out. If I were a private individual with several million dollars, what on earth could I do about, for instance, urban renewal, that would not be better done if I turned my money...
...want summer sessions for the gifted, special teachers for the retarded, night classes for the aged. The air-conditioned hive that serves this honey must house carpentry shops and physics laboratories, a hall for the town meeting, and perhaps a swimming pool that adults can use too. It must impress like a monument-and be as cheap as a summer cottage. It is running out of space, money and teachers...
Singapore was a fortress of paper-endless reams of paper that issued from British information offices assuring the world that Singapore was invincible. Confident that a constant boast of strength would impress the Japanese, the British encouraged "a complacency more impenetrable than the Malayan jungle." So writes Author Attiwill, who was there as a British soldier when Singapore fell in 1942 and vowed one day to tell the whole story...
...while the C. & O. has paid dividends all but two years since 1889, currently pays $4 per share. The C. & O., which had guessed down to the dollar how far the Central would go to top its offer, is counting on its sound financial position and dividend prospects to impress B. & O. stockholders more than the Central's bait...
...building blocks of a nation's character. If Suburbia's ardent pursuit of life at backyard barbecues, block parties and committee meetings offends pious city-bred sociologists, its self-conscious strivings to find a better way for men, women and children to live together must impress the same observers...