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That 19th century certitude, of course, should still be supplemented by instinct, another essential trait in an age when the only rapid communications were between a man's brain and hand. Kissinger, in A World Restored, quotes a line from Metternich: "I was born to make history, not to write novels, and if I guess correctly, this is because I know." As he helps Richard Nixon make history, Kissinger will have to make some knowing guesses himself, probably fateful ones. The U.S. can hope that Kissinger, a man of brilliant intellect, will guess correctly?and that Nixon guessed correctly...
Thus began, last June, the Vatican examination of Monsignor Ivan Illich, 42, Vienna-born New York priest, linguist and controversial founder of one of Latin America's most promising experiments in social and cultural education, the Center for Intercultural Documentation in Cuernavaca, Mexico. What began as a quiet investigation has blown into a full-scale and still unresolved controversy in the past few weeks...
...mean by this that in order to achieve any goal, however modest, one must qualify. Qualifying means: having been trained, passed a course, obtained a certificate. . . The young in college were born into this system which in this country is not much older than they, and they feel, quite rightly, intense claustrophobia. They have been in the groove since the sandbox...
Married. Alan Paton, 66, South African author and outspoken critic of his nation's apartheid policies (Cry the Beloved Country); and Anne Hopkins, 41, his British-born secretary; both for the second time; in Durban...
Brought up in poverty by his widowed mother, Chicago-born Stone started selling newspapers at the age of six; by 13 he owned a newsstand and had read almost every Horatio Alger book. He switched to selling insurance at 16, and four years later started his own agency with $100 in capital. Remaining in debt to force himself to work hard, he recruited a group of 1,000 agents across the country by the time he was 30. In 1939 he founded a company that later became Combined...