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...brief question and answer period, he doubted the farsightedness of the current American disarmament position. "To want effective inspection systems," Morgenthau said, "is to desire a utopia or not to want disarmament...
Some of these men (like Chester Bowles and John Kenneth Galbraith) helped to draft the Democratic platform, and occasionally the eloquence of their unhappiness gives the lie to the visions of mindless utopia cast by the rest of it. "We have drifted into a national mood that accepts payola and quiz scandals, tax evasion and false expense accounts. . . exploitation of sadistic violence as public entertainment," they tell us. The presence of these words in the platform implies that President Eisenhower's administration has been responsible for all these, just as Frank Church suggested in his keynote address that the Republicans...
...traditionally been ramshackle structures-ill-assorted odds and ends of lumber loosely nailed together by cautious, compromise-minded committees. By comparison, the 1960 Democratic platform, grandly entitled "The Rights of Man," is a well-made document: straightforward, clear, brief and-as platforms go-probably the most coherent blueprint for Utopia ever to come out of a convention. As such, it reflected not only the promises of the candidate but the leanings of its principal architect: Platform Committee Chairman Chester Bowles, 59, Congressman from Connecticut, prospeous ex-adman (Benton & Bowles), Harry Truman's best-known Ambassador to In dia, Kennedy...
...rates"), but then it goes on to call for a broad and costly expansion of federal services. And how are they to be paid for? In the real world, the answer would have to be either inflationary deficit spending or increased taxes, but in the platform's Utopia the Democrats propose to pay the added welfare costs by rubbing liberalism's newest Aladdin's lamp-the force-fed 5% economic growth rate (growth rate of the U.S. economy over the past half-century: 3%). Platform Committee Chairman Bowles admitted fortnight ago in Los Angeles that...
...goes down to his defeat. Ivan dreams of a characteristic revenge: he has invented a supermachine. he says, that can do anything. In a flash, it could bring about the perfection of the new Utopia...