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Buckley's conception of individualism is equally definite. He states it in a footnote: "I am committed to the classical doctrine that...regulation by a free competitive economy brings out not only maximum prosperity but maximum freedom." Buckley will brook absolutely no exceptions. Again, there are probably few Yale graduates who would go down the line with him on the pristine perfection of laissez-faire economics...
...Year of Our Lord 1718 an affluent London merchant who had been born in the American colonies received several visits from a Bostonian named Jeremiah Dummer about a struggling institution of higher learning in Say-brook, Connecticut called The Collegiate School. These visits, along with some very persuasive letters from another Bostonian named Increase Mather, succeeded in convincing the London merchant to give a substantial donation to the small school, which was promptly named Yale College in his honor. Today that college celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding...
Communism, Fairbank added, has become too well consolidated in China to brook the entrance of Titoism. "The Communists may eventually repudiate communism in their hearts, but they're stuck with...
...days later, 25 miles from the scene of the Whitsunday murders, Georges Chantot, a crippled World War II veteran, was fishing by a laurel-bordered brook, with his wife, their three-months-old daughter, and a schoolteacher friend...
Suddenly, one of the two white-robed figures hunched over a fire on the other side of the brook whipped out a rifle and fired. Chantot clutched at his throat, held out his wallet and cried, "Take it-" The rifleman fired again. "Save yourselves-" cried Chantot to the women as he fell, but it was too late. A third shot caught the schoolteacher in the leg. As she writhed on the ground, the killer crossed the brook and shot her dead. Before he could turn his attention to Madame Chantot and the child, a passing truck scared...