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...greeted by an enthusiastic crowd and signs-"How, Big Chief Eisenhower." After sitting through a parade of tribal dancers, Ike began his speech: "Governor Mechem, Chairman Ahkeah . . . and I hope I may say my brethren of the Zuni, Hopis, Apaches, Papagos, Rio Grande Pueblos, Navajos, the Sioux . . ." He got a huge round of applause as he rattled off the Indian names, continued: "I am particularly sensitive to the great honor you have done me . . . asking as your guest one belonging to the profession [Army] that in years past was your enemy . . . Out of the stories that surrounded that epic campaign...
...heart and mind and try with all that is in me to learn their everyday and immediate aspirations and hopes for peace, what they feel about the horrors of war, all the questions that mean so much . . ." He concluded: "I cannot leave here without expressing to you, my brethren of the tribes, my interest in your educational opportunities, your health improvements, all of those things which you so richly deserve, and which bring you finally to that stage where there is no difference, so that when we meet we will say, 'How, Americans...
Almost nothing is known of Bosch's life except that he was a member of a semi-monastic lay community. Critic Fränger, basing his judgment on clues found in the paintings, thinks Bosch was also secretly an Adamite, a member of a sect called "Brethren of the Free Spirit," which found many underground recruits in the late Middle Ages. The Adamites reacted strongly against the church view on unbounded fleshly pleasures. They believed that perfection could be achieved not by ascetic prayer, but by a return to the perfect love of natural man, as typified by Adam...
...earth-moving and contracting business at Stockton, Calif, on a loan of $4,500. In 1931, he lost $32,000. Next year he switched to making scrapers, bulldozers, cranes, etc., and made his deal with God. His 1932 net: $52,000. LeTourneau, who comes from a deeply religious Plymouth Brethren family and whose two sisters were missionaries to China, turned over his stock interest to endow the LeTourneau Foundation, now worth $16 million and one of the biggest religious foundations...
Deviations. Last week Moscow spoke again, this time through Party Philosopher Etienne Fajon, certified guardian of the French C.P.'s "ideological purity." In a 15,000-word article plastered across two full pages of Paris' Communist L'Humanite, Fajon reprimanded his sinning brethren. French Communists, he scolded, had relied too much on "sectarianism," i.e., pure revolutionary violence, and not enough on the "revolutionary combativeness" of the popular masses. That Comrade Billoux only a few weeks before had ordered them to do what they did was no excuse: if the Politburo had seemed to err, that was because...