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Kennedy asked for a potpourri of programs and powers that would doubtless carry a high price tag. But at the same time he stressed that his real purpose was to increase opportunities for individual Americans rather than build up the state at their expense. "The state is the servant of the citizen and not its master," he said, and he pledged to "give the individual the opportunity to realize his own highest possibilities." He asked for job training for private, not Government jobs, for a spur, not to Government or public works but to private industry through tax credits...
...years. Jack Romagna, a civil servant who works in Washington, suffered from a recurrent nightmare. In his dream Romagna sat at the elbow of the President of the U.S., transcribing in shorthand a presidential address. But for some reason. Romagna's pen moved without leaving a mark. And as the President talked on, his unrecorded words were lost forever...
...Latin parchment document of the papal bull began in the traditional way: "John, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God." Thus, on Christmas morning, Pope John XXIII was to convoke Vatican Council II-potentially an event in Roman Catholic history on the order of the Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople or Trent...
...Denmark's finest writer and one of the world's best, writes a dry, elegiac reminiscence of the years she spent from 1921 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. Miss Dinesen's principal theme is the feudal harmony of white master and black servant, making the book seem removed by centuries, not decades, from the present...
...publicity brought in floods of replies. One said that Parkman had been "beguiled Cambridge and done in," while another had him, head covered with blood, driven at breakneck speed" across Craigie's Bridge in Cambridge. One of the more plausible reports was that of a servant in Parkman's household. He recalled that the Doctor had had a call earlier on Friday, who reminded him of a 1:30 appointment on that day. The speaker not be identified...