70 Year Magazine Archive

Robert A. Nisbet’s triumphant exposition of Emile Durkheim

by Walter Connor

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out and bought matzoh ball soup from stores all over Washington.” Even the simplest rules turned out to have unforeseen consequences: forced to lower its profit margin, a grocery chain advertised some items below cost and devastated some smaller competitors.

Early in the game, Grayson caught a case of the Administration’s paranoia. “A common activity by the key PC staff was to gather in my office at 7 a.m. [note the martyrdom] to read the Post, Times, Wall Street Journal, and Journal of Commerce to see how they each covered a story.” Nice to know that tax-supported salaries are well spent. “They printed stories,” Grayson goes on, “ that were absolutely false. They spread rumors that were sometimes harmful. They made innuendos in their stories that were a mixture of fact and supposition ”

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