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Most of the little talks that President Kennedy makes to visiting White House groups-exchange teachers, clubwomen, South Dakota Indians-are about as inspired as the occasions that compel them...
Sudden Retirement. Though the U.S. is trying to compel Duvalier to mend his ways, Haiti's intransigent tyrant was still showing a preference for his own gang instead of the army. The army's chief of staff, General Jean-René Boucicaut, worried for his own safety, fled with his wife and children to asylum in the Venezuelan embassy. Swearing in a replacement, his fifth army boss in as many years, "Papa Doc," as Duvalier likes to be called, blandly announced that the 44-year-old Boucicaut had reached "the age of retirement...
...argues, the church too often substituted force of arms for force of argument. Perhaps the first theologian to defend strong-arm methods was St. Augustine. In one debate with some 5th century heretics, he lost his temper, abandoned his arguments from Scripture and announced the terrible principle: Cogite intrare-compel them to enter. It was a fateful surrender to weakness that later Christians found most useful. In the 13th century battle to stamp out the Catharists of southern France, the church could call on Augustine to justify the killing of heretics...
...onlv $4.7 billion left to go before it breaks through the $11.7 billion floor of gold legally required to back U.S. paper currency and the banking system. Although the Fed can suspend the requirement at will, a drop below that minimum could cause a run on the dollar and compel Washington to clamp controls...
...responsibility to its audience. News and special-events directors, long abused in the board rooms for costing money without bringing more in, could thank him for the new prestige and new power they enjoy within their companies. Though he has to make do with rhetoric when he cannot compel reform, Minow, 36, a onetime law partner of Adlai Stevenson, has exercised greater influence over broadcasting than the FCC has ever shown before...