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Intellectual Leadership. Like Adler, most members in the New York Society have always been dissident Jews, who shared his belief that religious dogmatism leads only to strife. Elsewhere in the U.S., Ethical Culturists are mostly ex-Protestants, with a sprinkling of former Roman Catholics. Intellectual standards are high; a majority of the societies' 5,500 members are college graduates...
...good times as well as bad, the Irish remain feisty folk. Among other things, labor-management strife increases even as the little (pop. 2,800,000) Republic of Ireland grows more prosperous. In 1960 Ireland had virtually no strikes. Last year it had 89 major ones - trainmen quit running trains, gravediggers quit digging graves, and, no doubt with special enthusiasm, mailmen cut off all parcel-post traffic be tween the Ould Sod and England...
...need not have been. Austrians had clung to their "Red-Black" coalition-giving the chancellorship to the People's Party and the presidency to the Social ists - because the mere idea of two-party competition recalled the civil strife of the 1930s and the subsequent German takeover. But in recent months the two parties had frequently reached deadlock over the People's Party's at tempt to trim funds for state-owned enterprises. Then, after the March election, Socialist Boss Bruno Pittermann presented his party's demands for going along with coalition: continued control...
...Touré has all but disenfranchised the majority Foulah tribesmen, and is making an even greater mess of his economy than Kwame Nkrumah did in Ghana. Another is Niger, which has grown sullen and restive after Hamani Diori's eight years of corruption and mismanagement. Strife between northerners and southerners keeps tension high in Senegal, Chad, Mauritania and Mali, and has already plunged the Sudan's new civilian government into civil...
...prestige. He urged all Colombians "to bind ourselves in a great movement to awaken the national conscience." In the political back rooms and in talks with the country's landowning upper class, Lleras Camargo reminded Colombians of the 200,000 killed during the years of bloody civil strife, implying that the front was the only way to avoid another massacre-or a military dictatorship. The campaign ended at a huge rally in Bogotá. With Lleras Camargo looking on, Lleras Restrepo once again accepted the front's nomination for President and proclaimed a platform of nationalism and social...