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...does," Miss Rand said in criticizing the Sherman Anti-Trust laws. They are "unintelligible laws the businessman can't help breaking," and their only meaning is the "penalizing of ability for being ability." They are a "constant threat of disaster," putting the businessman at the "mercy of any young bureaucrat," who has a "yen to do some trustbusting...
United Effort. The man who has genially stood watch over much of Detroit's decline is Mayor Louis Miriani, 64, a competent but complacent bureaucrat who has held office since 1957. Miriani wants the Michigan legislature, dominated by Republicans to help by voting more state relief funds or by at least passing the bills to let Detroit get more federal aid. Says Miriani: "That's where we need help-at the state level...
...Bureaucrat Eichmann had performed meticulously; anything outside routine offended him. Prosecutor Gideon Hausner quoted the defendant's wartime notes complaining of a Berlin Chancellery official who wanted special help in disposing of some people he found particularly irksome: "This is the most important shop in the entire Reich, and here this uncle asks me whether he could have a few trains. And he is very courteous and cordial, because he wants to stoke the stove with a few idiots...
Meticulously taking notes with a black ballpoint pen, underlining in red important document fragments, Adolf Eichmann but for his glass cage might have been a minor court bureaucrat during the first eight weeks of his trial. As witness after witness rose to recount the Nazi crimes against the Jews, the green-backed files and notebooks in the cage grew higher and higher. At night in his cell, Eichmann pored over his files until his eyes watered with weariness. Last week, when he took the stand for the first time in his own defense, Eichmann was ready to the point...
...Blake would unite the churches by throwing out the Protestant principle of sola scriptura. Once the Biblical curb on ecclesiastical power is removed, there is not a chance of stopping the bureaucrat. And guess who that lucky dog would be? The "organization man"-the man in the image of Dr. Blake. Our appeal to sola scriptura was given the heave ho. But without sola scriptura, you simply cannot be Protestant at all, much less Calvinist...