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...safeguards of the family as an institution must be carefully fostered among adolescents: "What [adolescents] do during the difficult premarriage period may well influence their whole lives. If they give in to sexual desire without restraint, it is not to be expected that they will fit into a pattern of stable married life without a struggle . . . What comes cheaply is not valued highly. But even more important, when a man knowingly deviates from the moral law, his ability to resist further temptation is weakened. Habit and the memory of sin are not easily effaced...
Chief Censor. Probably the most influential voice in determining what is acceptable advertising is the New York Times, which has cut the basic pattern for many of its contemporaries. As "chief censor" of the Times for the past 18 years, Joseph W. Gannon, a graduate of Dartmouth and the N. W. Ayer ad agency, sets the standards for the Times-which he calls "the strictest in the field." Last year, redfaced, blue-nosed Censor Gannon and staff reworded, revised or rejected...
...shall prescribe any requirements with respect to the curriculum or administration of any school." In addition the House Committee report emphasizes that the federal aid should be to supplement and not to replace other normal resources. "Each institution," the report states, "should remain free to develop its own educational pattern in accordance with its own concept of its historical destiny, its own philosophy of education and the educational needs of the region within which it operates...
...grows hotter he slumps down, his feet on the table, his bald head slipping until it is about level with the top of the bench back. he voices grow more strident, but Attlee hardly stirs. He might be asleep. But no, his hand is moving through a strange intricate pattern. He is doodling. Some knitted through France's revolution...
...such small ways, said FORTUNE, the American system has demonstrated its adaptability to foreign cultures. "It is therefore a model instrument for the reformation of other economies; for far from imposing an alien pattern on them, it is constantly reforming itself from within. Not only will foreign countries modify the American system to suit themselves; they will also inevitably contribute elements of useful reform to the fundamental proposition . . . The American Business Economy is neither a closed nor a fixed system. By its nature it must remain open and changing or perish...