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Many a spiritual movement has expired with its founder, but Moral Re-Armament is made of more durable stuff. Three years after the death of Frank Buchman, M.R.A. feels as assured as ever that it will conquer the world with its four absolutes: honesty, purity, unselfishness and love...
...United Auto Workers' strike target. Finally, Walter Reuther gave the nod to Chrysler Corp., at the same time moving the strike deadline back to Sept. 9 so that there will be labor peace during President Johnson's Labor Day speech in Detroit. Following the divide-and-conquer technique that he has used so successfully in the past, Reuther hoped to pressure Chrysler into granting contract provisions that he could later impose on Ford and General Motors. The hard bargaining began immediately...
...called it "the first gigantic step toward a fundamental change in the basis for human society." He quoted Aristotle's assertion that "when looms weave by themselves, man's slavery will end," and added: "That day has almost arrived. We right now possess the technological means to conquer poverty and economic slavery for the first time in history. The only question that remains is whether this physical bondage will be replaced by a new slavery of the soul and mind. The underlying philosophy of the Administration boils down basically to this: delay automation as long as possible...
...exhaling unpolluted air is Broadway Actress Elizabeth Ashley. Given an insipid role as the cast-off wife who keeps stumbling over platinum blondes in Peppard's hotel suites, she turns her rough-velvet charm to advantage in a performance that bleach cannot beat. Peppard himself works manfully to conquer the handicaps of a script climaxed by preposterous revelations fraught with pop psychology, an excess that even the book avoided. Seems Peppard isn't such a bad sort, after all. He became rich, ruthless and depraved because his father had hated him ever since-ah, well. Presumably, after savoring...
...orders read like the work of a bored general trying to inject a little life into a standard peacetime troop maneuver: the Colombian army and air force were to invade, conquer and hold the "Independent Republic of Marquetalia," a 1,400-sq.-mi. enemy enclave deep in the Andean highlands 170 miles southwest of Bogotá. But this war is real, and so is Marquetalia. Colombians know it as the stronghold of Pedro Antonio Marín, 34, alias "Tiro Fijo" (Sure Shot), last of the country's bigtime bandit chieftains...