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...also been called (by Socialists) "the greatest Socialist in Canada." Although he has made public ownership pay, Howe is no Socialist, but a member of Canada's Liberal Party. The party has been in uninterrupted power for 16 years, and its ideology, except in fiscal policy, is roughly akin to that of the Democrats in the U.S. Says Howe: "I'm all for private enterprise, but you can't go without something just because private enterprise won't build...
...pleasant visions but of faithful discipline. To hold that we are religious only when we feel religious is a most depressing heresy. We may safely wager that the saint never feels like a saint. To make the efficacy of prayer and goodness dependent upon 'feeling' is akin to a Napoleon on the eve of battle calling it all off till he feels more heroic. In His ninth hour, Jesus did not feel the Father near-'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?'-but faith and obedience did not fail...
...some still yearn for the day when "everyone could just get together in a sort of secret cartel on ambition." FORTUNE itself puts in a plug for the "ornery wife," thinks the "integration" has gone too far. "Conformity," says an editorial on the survey, "is being elevated into something akin to a religion." But there are still companies that will have no part of it. Says one auto executive: "Wives' activities are their own business. What do these companies want for their $10,000? Slavery...
...Yugoslav immigrant boy at 14, a newspaper loader, a soldier, a textile worker, a longshoreman. When he moved in 1936 to a century-old farmhouse and 40 acres of land in New Jersey's stony, wooded Hunterdon County hills, he took to the placid rural life with something akin to jubilance. "Louis," nearby residents took to saying, "is a good neighbor-none better...
...honor code had been set up in 1817 by the "Father of West Point," stern Sylvanus Thayer, given its final shape during the tour of General Douglas MacArthur in the '20s, and came to occupy in a West Pointer's mind, Ike Eisenhower once said, a position "akin to the virtue of his mother or sister...