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...Wise Blood, a red-neck fanatic who plans to create "the Church Without Christ," is one of the most unlikely dullards ever to grumble through an American novel. The grandson of a fundamentalist preacher who was always harping on hell. Haze Motes feels that if he could abolish the idea of Jesus, there would be no need to worry about sin. Shouting from the hood of his dilapidated Essex, Motes proclaims that "there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from and no Redemption because there was no Fall . . . Nothing matters but that Jesus was a liar...
...college-wide referendum is a fairly new part of the Dartmouth scene. It was first--and last--used two years ago when the college voted to abolish discriminatory clauses in fraternity constitutions...
What provoked the uproar was the Federal Reserve Board's decision to abolish Regulation W, the control measure which fixed minimum down payments and installments on consumer goods, e.g., one-third down on autos, with only 18 months to pay the rest. FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin had wanted to stick to the ruling despite a 6% drop in retail sales during the first 4½ months of 1952. But he was persuaded to lift it after the twelve regional chairmen warned him that, in their districts, prices were sliding, goods moving sluggishly, and inventories piling up. Now retailers...
...know who had passed it, or when or why. Snorted Judge Harris: "We just won't enforce the bill. It's unconstitutional." But there it was on the law books. Finally, Mayor Lewis Moore called an emergency meeting of the city council, which voted unanimously to abolish...
...moneyman behind the opposition is South Africa's wealthiest man: fabulous Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, the diamond king, who owns gold and uranium mines, railways and newspapers as well. The industrialists want cheap Negro labor. Neither industrialists nor liberals want to abolish South Africa's color bar, but both are willing to give the blacks more education and opportunity. In the heightened emotions of the present crisis, they find it necessary to show that they are not "nigger lovers." Arguing in Parliament for technical training for black workers, Jacobus Strauss declared, "Higher skills are in any case beyond...