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...even every political choice, is between good and evil, and that if a thing is necessary it is also right. We should, I think, get rid of this belief, which belongs to the nursery. In politics one can never do more than decide which of two evils is the lesser, and there are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic...
...decisions made at last week's Open Market Committee meeting will not be made public for a month. But a summary just released of the Federal Reserve's October session reveals that the committee agreed on a "slightly lesser degree of restraint." Wall Street experts doubt, however, that the Fed will push down interest rates substantially. Says Stephen Roach, senior economist at the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "My feeling is that the Fed will maintain a wait-and-see attitude through the rest of the year...
Well, the Cuban economists, using U.N. data on rates of development during the 1970s, have draw up a chart with estimates of when the less-developed countries will achieve the 1980 per capita GNP level of the U.S., West Germany and other Western nations. At current rates, the lesser-developed countries will not reach the 1980 per capita GNP of the United States until the year 6007. They will not possess the 1980 wealth of West Germany until the year...
...publication of his first novel. The Old Boys, William Trevor has quietly produced a substantial body of fiction which has gathered a wide spectrum of admirers (especially in Britain) But Trevor's work has never received quite the same amount of literary attention that has been enjoyed by many lesser contemporary British writers. So it is a very good thing that Penguin has brought out an edition of his five collections of short stories to coincide with the publication of Trevor's ninth novel. Fools of Fortune...
...structures. Kennedy's mind was extremely orderly, but his techniques in office were sometimes heterodox and unexpected. They might have struck an outsider as being somewhat chaotic. He constantly bypassed the chain of command. He telephoned Assistant Secretaries or lesser military officers in order to seek information he needed. His press secretary, Pierre Salinger, once remarked that the back door of the White House always seemed more open than the front door. He understood the dynamics of meetings, and sometimes mistrusted them as a way of doing business. He thought that his presence might intimidate people. He liked...