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Total Effort. Opus Dei (official title: Sociedad Sacerdotal de la Santa Cruz y del Opus Dei) was founded in Madrid on Oct. 2, 1928. The founder was a young Marist priest, José María Escrivá de Balaguer, whose aim was to tie the struggle for spiritual perfection to the struggle for professional perfection in the modern world. Instead of retiring into monasteries, he felt, men with a secular calling as well as a sacred one should be able to follow both at once. The solution: in addition to vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, a man pledges...
Funds for the new House will come from the Program for Harvard College, and thus it will represent the first aim of the Progam to be realized in a final, physical form...
...long run-as important to the collective security of the free world as the military measures we have taken." But, while the U.S. "can afford the essential programs of foreign assistance which our national interest requires," it must balance foreign aid against other demands upon the economy, should aim toward cutbacks in future years...
...Parity is a formula for adjusting farm support prices according to the prices farmers have to pay for the things they buy (fertilizers, tractors, etc.). The aim is to give the farmer's dollar the same purchasing power it had in 1910-14. No other segment of the U.S. economy has the same Government guarantee. Parity prices are revised monthly by the Department of Agriculture...
...enlisted in the French Foreign Legion at 17 and saw action with the Wehrmacht in France and Africa during World War II. he gives full marks to courage, loyalty and military skill. Turned blind, these virtues become the "Furor teutonicus," a vice at which Author Opitz takes wry derisive aim, proving that a laugh can be deadlier than a Luger...