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Wilson is considered responsible for the Harvard Press's sixfold increase in sales over the last two decades. He has broadened the range of Press publications, especially in the social sciences and natural sciences...
...rushing to take advantage of what the National Academy of Sciences calls "this new and enormous power to influence the conditions of human life." This year alone the U.S. Government has published some 1,700 pages of hard, scientific findings on weather modification. The National Academy has recommended a sixfold increase in such research by 1970, and President Johnson has called for "new strides toward coping with the historic enemies, storm and drought and flood...
...punch the federal snoot. The fact is that the Federal Government needs to do many things that the states cannot-or will not-do by themselves and that the states and localities badly need the money that comes from Washington. Since 1946, state and local spending has soared sixfold, to nearly $100 billion a year-twice what Washington spends on domestic affairs. But the Federal Government gets the lion's share of the nation's most lucrative source of revenue-the personal income tax-and leaves the dregs to the states. Thus, for all the complaints...
McLandress will probably be most widely remembered for his triumphant automation of U.S. foreign policy. Noting that the number of State Department employees had increased more than sixfold in two decades, he found a ready analogy in the case of the potato farmer who doubles and redoubles his labor force as harvesting conditions become more and more difficult. The "potato syllogism," in McLandress' homely phrase, argues that the ever-increasing complexity of U.S. foreign problems leads inevitably to a proliferation of policymakers, who proportionately take more and more time to reach agreement that the present policy is correct...
...soared to impressive adjectival heights in describing the Communist heaven awaiting those Russians who can manage to hang on for another 20 years. By 1980, he promised, the gross national product will have grown fivefold, industrial production sixfold, and total farm output 3½ times. No one would then work long hours for low pay, and every family would have its own rent-free apartment. Best of all, Nikita promised that by 1965 each Russian would have the incredible bounty of "almost three pairs of shoes per year. "Some of the 1980 "miracles" compared with current U.S. levels...