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...once his lieutenant, now his bitter rival, who lost his own constituency. But if Ne Win's army would now step down, it was by no means stepping out of the picture entirely. It has set up a vast network of Solidarity Councils with the motto, "Lightning from the Sky." The purpose of the councils: to take care of such matters as supplying fuel, guarding against floods, and urging villagers to report on anyone suspected of being a Communist or a rebel. Furthermore, through a kind of super PX that just grew and grew in the past year...
...Hinton, had been a blend of crackpot and sexpot. Under the doctrine of "service," Hinton preached polygamy and practiced promiscuity among lonely women and errant wives. High-minded Havelock saw in this only a band of free spirits snapping the moral chains of Victorian bondage. He adopted the Hinton motto, Fay ce que vouldras (Do What Thou Wilt) as his own. As one of Ellis' women friends subsequently pointed out, it was a perfectly innocuous creed for him, since Havelock was tempted to do so little. The women who entered Ellis' life usually came for solace; they were...
...Teen Convention" at the National Guard Armory, under the bannered slogan: TEENS TELLING TEENS IN THE WORLD'S DECADE OF DESTINY. Layman Ted W. Engstrom of the Evangelical Free Church, president of Youth for Christ International, urged his plaid-shirted and bobby-soxed audience to write down the motto: "Christ Constantly in Command, Christ Completely in Control," and to put it into practice at school, at home, "and in parked cars on dates." Evangelist Billy Graham, a onetime Youth for Christ member, exhorted them to "turn your life over to Christ"-minds, eyes, ears ("Do you listen to dirty...
Modest Canada would blush to have invented Red China's grandiose motto "Great Leap Forward"-but in the past decade Canada has leaped. High in resources and low in population. Canada has taken giant strides toward a level of prosperity that only the U.S. surpasses; while the U.S.'s gross national product has climbed 50% since 1950, Canada's has jumped 90%-an advance in which U.S. investment dollars played a dominant role. Cuba, for its part, seems intent on adopting patterns from Red China. In the eleven months since Fidel Castro appeared on TIME...
...Which had given its man's plight big play every day he was in jail, including some fond embroidery. "His empty chair in the news room," said one story, with the picture of a chair, "carries the faded old motto he pasted on its back a couple of years ago." The chair actually belonged to Herald Religion Editor Adon Taft, and the motto - "Do unto Others" - was pasted on years ago by a mischievous copy...