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...ever before been made upon the intelligence and character of man. Modern industry, if we could only encompass it within our feeble imaginations, is the instrument by which it is given us to achieve in our lifetime nearly all that mankind has struggled for in centuries of blood and sweat and futility." April...
...life, if any, one thing is clear: that in all past experience, human purpose has had to be worked out primarily within the limited limits of an unbreakable economic equation. That equation was stated in the third chapter of Genesis in terms of a divine command: 'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.' And confirmed by the single economic passage in the Lord's Prayer: 'Give us this day our daily bread.' In mid-20th-century America, bread is a drug on the market. Our problem is not to get bread...
Johnson will need all his political tricks to get the aid bill through Congress. Aid-chopping Representative Otto ("The Terrible") Passman has vowed to sweat the President's request down to a slim $1 billion. In the House last year, only two votes kept the aid bill from being sent back to committee to be cut some more. Now thirty-three members who supported the Administration's proposals have lost their seats. While there is no way of telling how the fifty-seven now Republican Representatives will vote, most likely they will not be very friendly to the bill...
Over and over, Funt returned to his biggest beef. "I don't mind being finished," he said. "I've got lots to do. I feel that the 45 people who sweat this show out deserve a better fate than to hear it at tenth hand, without the dignity of a very nice funeral...
...Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport depends on an annual permit - and the last one expired last Dec. 31. Two days later, Vietnamese authorities refused landing clearance to a Pan Am commercial flight, changed their minds only after urgent and angry protests from the U.S. embassy. Even then, sweat-soaked passengers were kept aboard two hours. Next day the same thing happened to the same plane on its return trip to Saigon from Singapore...