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...Sterling views it, all too many clergymen suffer from similar frustrations. Often, he says, it is the "maddening nothingness of their contemporary ministry" that drives clerics to abandon the pulpit; those who resist such pressures frequently become ineffective victims of "overstay" in their parishes. Compounding their plight, disturbed priests are usually afraid or ashamed to discuss their feelings with their bishops or parishioners...
Reversing History. When Henry Ford presented his prize catch to newsmen, he recalled the precedent set by Bunkie's father. Big Bill Knudsen had worked for ten years at Ford, rising to production manager, before he quit in 1921 after Henry Ford I had rejected his advice to abandon the Model T and broaden Ford's one-product line. Moving shortly to General Motors as vice president of Chevrolet, Knudsen gave Chevrolet the pickup that put it ahead of Ford. His reward was G.M.'s presidency. "Today," said Henry Ford II, "the flow of history is reversed...
...have exercised some restraint about civilian deaths, With morality-rates after single raids in the hundreds rather than the hundreds of thousands. But recent events suggest that we have reached the kind of turning-point that occurred sometime in 1942, when a secret policy-decision was made to abandon traditional restraints against large urban populations. As ordinary citizens, we may never know when or how such a turning point is reached, as the British Air Command continued to deny any policy-change even after the destruction of Dresden...
...adaptation of John Osborne's play about Martin Luther's supposed psychological dilemmas glinted with bright character roles for which the British are renowned. In Robert Shaw, the play had the actor to give it go power. He gasped, crumpled and split the Christian world with facile abandon...
Then there was Ray Nitschke. At 31 and in his tenth season, Middle Linebacker Nitschke has lost most of his hair (and teeth), but he still plays, as he puts it, "with abandon." On the very first play from scrimmage, he slammed head-on into Oakland Full back Hewritt Dixon, flipped Dixon cleats over clavicle for no gain. When the Raiders tried to run wide, Nitschke demonstrated his remarkable talent for lateral pursuit-shooting through the gaps left by Oakland's pulling guards to run down Raider ball carriers from behind. In all, Nitschke made five unassisted tackles, helped...