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...Philosophizing Wolf." Though he is one of the world's most eminent logicians, Bertie Russell has achieved ever wider cold war fame as one of its most illogical eminences. A wispy, white-maned aristocrat who, like a fictional intellectual once described by Novelist Aldous Huxley, resembles "an extinct saurian." Russell is a brooding, old-fashioned agnostic who for most of his life has been torn between his view that the human race is irredeemably wicked and his conviction that he can save it. At one time he was so critical of Communism that Soviet propaganda labeled him "a philosophizing...
...same token, to men in other fields. What the liberal education basically seeks is not a fast start in a man's twenties but traction and opening scope in his thirties and later, College resembles the circles that bees make before homing to their course; the wider the circles, the truer the course...
...Leary finds, "there's a lot of resistance of taking like too seriously. We've done a lot of work in maximum security prisons. We and the prisoners have been convinved that there are wider possibilities in life that the game of cops and robbers. But it's hard for a convict to retain the serious goals he may have attained for moments through drugs; it's hard to get outside the game...
...Rolls boasts twin horizontal headlights, a lower hood, wider grille and hotter engine (around 270 h.p.). For the select minority who can afford Rolls prices (from $15,655 in the U.S. for the Silver Cloud II to $27,617 for the Park Ward), this was big news. But for Rolls-Royce Ltd. itself, autos are now little more than a sideline. Since World War II, the company has diversified into everything from rocket engines to nuclear propulsion systems for submarines. By so doing, it has become one of Britain's notable growth companies; since 1950 its sales have soared...
Currently under construction in Djakarta is the Merdeka (Freedom) Mosque, which is to be the world's biggest. The diameter of Merdeka's cupola will be 147 ft., or 40 ft. wider than the cupola of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia. Merdeka will hold 100,000 worshipers, twice the capacity of Lahore's Shah Badi Mosque. Since unbalancing the budget is also something Sukarno does big, part of the mosque's $30 million cost is being raised by more or less forced public subscription...