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...visit to Antioch, Peter (prodded by James) withdrew from the table that Paul shared with Gentile converts. The incident, with its implication that his Gentile converts were second-class Christians, prompted one of Paul's bursts of anger. "I withstood [Peter] to the face," he writes in Galatians 2:11, "because he was to be blamed...
...hard work and political savvy to the majority leadership in 1954. He soon formed a rural, right-wing opposition to Rockefeller's state-financed welfare program, demanded a token tax cut that Rocky fought off with the help and ill-concealed smiles of Democrats. Ten days after Rockefeller withdrew from the Republican presidential race, Mahoney endorsed Vice President Nixon-the only state party official thus far who has not followed Rockefeller's example of silence. But Mahoney saved his biggest blow to Rockefeller's prestige for the waning hours of the 1960 legislature...
After that it was just one great bewildering whirl of salesmanship. She withdrew $7,300 of her savings to buy a lifetime course, put two mortgages on her home to buy the $9,000 gold medal course and then the $12,000 lifetime executive course. By mid-July she had paid out over $25,000, had a nervous breakdown from worry over paying the rest. What sales technique had been used on Mrs. Frisch? Just sheer flattery. Admitted her instructor: "She idolized flattery." In the past, when similar complaints have popped up, Arthur Murray has neatly danced aside, pointing...
...John thought Harris' Rolls-Royce to be, "like Elijah's chariot, purely mythical.") When Oscar went to prison, Harris defied a savage social blockade to visit the ruined man, offered him ?500. There may have been genuine courage in his conduct, but typically, two days later, Harris withdrew his offer...
...Communist half of Viet Nam, where a nasty little jungle war has been going on almost since "peace" was agreed to in 1954. In their boldest stroke in four years, Communist Viet Minh guerrillas crept into a Viet Nam army regimental headquarters northwest of Saigon. Planting time bombs, they withdrew until the bombs went off, then charged from three sides, killed 34 soldiers, and made off with large amounts of arms and ammunition...