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According to most Christian thinkers, this religious renaissance signifies the bankruptcy of secular rationalism. But whether the revival indicates that a Christian Renaissance is imminent or shows only that a drowning man will grab anything which comes to hand, is imponderable...
...practice to remain until the crowds that inevitably lie in wait for him have dispersed-so as to prevent demonstrations. When he says Mass, he usually emerges from the parish house about an hour after the service. Women kiss his ring, children cling to his robes, people grab at his hands. "Good souls, go home, please," he will say, "or I'll put a tax on you for the rebuilding of the church...
...only at Chrysler but other plants, have raised doubts about the continued rise in U.S. productivity. There are other problems, such as how the benefits of increased productivity shall be divided among labor, investors and consumers. Said Henry Ford II recently; "Any attempt by labor or capital to grab the total increase in productivity, or more, can lead only to price inflation and/or shrinkage of the total market." But if management and labor can agree on an equitable split that will also mean increased dividends to investors plus stable or lower prices to consumers, then most economists believe that...
...turned out, though Dag Hammarskjold first called Nasser's move "regrettable," and the Israelis raged. But as with his Suez grab, Nasser had looked to the letter of the law. The fact was that Hammarskjold had always insisted that both sides must comply with the 1949 Egyptian-Israeli armistice agreement, and Nasser had only exercised his right under that agreement to administer Gaza (although he justifies his exclusion of Israeli shipping from the Suez Canal on the grounds that there is in fact no armistice and he is still entitled to exercise a belligerent's rights...
...stock by using Swiss banks, which are forbidden by law to reveal names of customers, and by making purchases from a handful of mysterious sellers who collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for helping Silberstein. All told, said Silberstein last week, his Penn-Texas Corp., a grab bag of 20 companies has bought-or agreed to buy-some $35 million in F-M shares. He can count on 669,270 shares (48.7%), or enough to give him control of the $135 million family-run company at the annual meeting next week. Last week, in his reports...