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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today half of Cape Dorset's income derives from the sale of art works. This is just the way Jim Houston intended it. Not even Cape Dorset will remain in violate forever; sooner or later it will be drawn into the modern world where other Eskimos have fared so poorly. Says Hous ton: "Their art is the one thing that can preserve their pride in their Eskimo identity. So long as their art remains true and vital and coveted by the outside world, they will be saved from hopeless apathy in the face of the onslaught of the almighty...
...quality of its population -i.e., the productivity of its labor force -and control its quantity. For example. he demanded, how can China think that 20,000 men can do the work of one Soviet electronic computer? If China's population explosion is not contained, he went on, "sooner or later the peasants will change all the favors and kindness they have received into feelings of despair and discontent, and though the result may not be the same as what happened in Poland and Hungary, it will inevitably bring many headaches for the government." Most Communist writers are too tactful...
...sooner did the full-page ad for Allen Drury's bestseller Advise and Consent appear in the New York Times last week than telephones started ringing at Publisher Doubleday & Co. and its ad agency, Franklin Spier. How in the world had Doubleday lined up those models? There was Vice President Richard Nixon standing beside an airliner chatting animatedly with Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kennedy. The apparent object of conversation: Advise and Consent, gripped firmly in Nixon's hand...
Cordiner's warning about price fixing might have been voiced a bit sooner. The TVA has long complained about strangely identical bids. Last May it disclosed 24 cases since 1956 of matching bids-sometimes down to a hundredth of a penny-involving 47 U.S. manufacturers. On one transformer contract, for example. General Electric, Allis-Chalmers, and Mc-Graw-Edison's Pennsylvania Transformer Division each submitted bids of $112,712; Westinghouse won the contract with a bid of $86,760. This year, competing to supply 33,000 power-line insulators, G.E. and six other companies submitted identical bids...
...Sooner or later, all Americans will be written into the record of this age of statistics. Last week it was the moviegoer, buttonholed by professional pollsters in a survey prepared for LIFE. Splitting their subjects into three groups-frequent moviegoers (twice a month or more), moderate (three to twelve times a year), infrequent (twice a year or less)-the pollsters put together a mathematical profile...