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...there any ideal way we can legally get rid of Chief Justice Warren...
...year-old student at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University was just plain bored: somehow, he decided, he would have to get rid of his tiresome prostitute sweetheart. And so, one day last fall, Kenjiro Yoshida invited her around to his dormitory and strangled her with a necktie. Three months later, police found her body under the dormitory floor...
...decision of the Supreme Court will not cripple G.M. nor will it knock a dent in Du Pont's business. G.M. will probably keep right on buying from Du Pont so long as the price and product are right. What will hurt is the order to get rid of stock that pays a handsome $126 million annually in dividends. Through Christiana Securities Co., Delaware Realty & Investment Co. and individual stockholdings, the Du Pont family owns 28% of Du Pont itself, and in turn some 18 million shares of General Motors stock worth $756 million. Yet while the trustbusters want...
...Christian vision must therefore be translated into terms which will have connotations appropriate to the contemporary context, and this translation has not been accomplished. It must rid itself of what applied only in the ancient world and must come armed against the idolatries of the twentieth century, not the first century...
...soil bank was a compromise from the start. After campaigning for years to get rid of costly, futile, surplus-accumulating price supports, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson was forced in pre-election 1956 to settle for much less flexibility in price-support levels than he wanted. Reluctantly he and the Administration adopted the soil bank, a three-year program of paying farmers to reduce production, with the hope that after 1959 surpluses would be gone, and farmers could get back to a free market. In its favor were plausible arguments about conserving the soil, preventing erosion, etc. But even before...