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...toward the authorities than toward his own father. This extreme devotion to family explains why the traditional Chinese has no social conscience in the Western sense, for the community outside family or clan is an abstraction. One looks after one's own, not others: this is at the root of much Chinese corruption...
...balance the budget, whose looming $1.2 billion deficit had caused Erhard's Cabinet to break up. With some sleight of hand, he did so, and he managed to put some steam back into the lagging economy by speeding up federal spending. He also struck at the root cause of Erhard's financial distress: the billion-dollar offset payments that Bonn makes yearly to support U.S. and British forces in Germany. Contending that Bonn no longer had the financial health to afford such large payments, Kiesinger stuck to his position until the U.S. last week suggested a new, less...
...Presbyterian missionaries, the Rev. Henry Winters Luce and Elizabeth Root Luce, he was born and spent the first 14 years of his life in Shantung, the home province of Confucius. From his parents, he absorbed the Calvinist faith and the love of his homeland that were to influence his whole life. Before he was six, he stood on a stool in the mission compound and preached a sermon to the assembled amahs and their children. He later said that he could never remember a time when he did not know all about the U.S. Constitution...
...that Crimson racquetmen can do now is cross their fingers and root for Army to score at least four points against Navy in Annapolis this Saturday. The national championship, which is determined by composite scores, is down to Harvard and Navy -- and the Midshipmen look like the best bet. They are heavily favored to beat the Cadets...
...state budget one year," pointed out that it had financed such pioneering projects as Physicist Ernest Lawrence's cyclotron studies. Financier Norton Simon, calling on his own business experience, warned against any budgeting that reduces the quality of the product. "I wouldn't tear down the very root of what's been built," he declared. "This is the falsest kind of economy...