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Full of Faith. When Indira was 13, her father advised her in a letter he wrote while in prison: "Ordinary men and women are not usually heroic. They think of their daily bread and butter, of their children, of their household worries and the like. But a time comes when a whole people become full of faith for a great cause, and then even simple, ordinary men and women become heroes, and history becomes stirring and epochmaking. Great leaders have something in them which inspires a whole people and makes them do great deeds." Nehru's daughter has inspired...
...rich St. Louis real estate developer, Vittert showed considerable ingenuity at earning money as an undergraduate. His profitable enterprises included a direct-mail campaign selling a campus "survival kit": Vittert sent letters to students' parents promoting a package of fruit, peanut butter and candy, which for $5 would be sent to their sons and daughters when they crammed for final exams. Vittert's drive for individuality also made him campus handball and pingpong champion-and a sartorial iconoclast: though he has his hair cut short and dresses in pin-stripe gray suits, he almost never wears socks...
...reading Robinson Crusoe as a girl-Madame de La Tour du Pin had the star-survivor qualities of a first-generation American. She found nothing to compare with the beauty of the Hudson River at West Point. She made friends with America's aristocrats, the Indians. Her monogrammed butter was in demand. But the marquis evidently was a less happy exile, eager to resume his career in French public life at the first opportunity...
...bother me. It means a million less bodies a year. It depends on what they are going to come up with. It doesn't take a division to run the bomber with the H-bomb. So let's get rid of the extra people. The butter is spread pretty thin anyway. All I am concerned with is that we have enough...
...rare admission of party failure, Trybuna conceded that the sharp and sudden price increases had been responsible for starting the trouble. (The newspaper also insisted, of course, that the rioters had been misled by rumors and misinformation.) Temporarily, at least, the presence of guns had quelled the demand for butter. But there was good reason for the party chieftains to fear that similar demonstrations might flare up again, particularly if nothing is done about the causes that sparked them. As a final irony, it may be that the atheist leaders of Poland have been given a respite by the mere...