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...Evening Journal are owned by the Du Pont family. For years, the Du Ponts insisted on editorial docility. One editor found it wise to keep a Du Pont genealogical table next to his phone so that he could quickly establish who was complaining at any given moment. Creed Black, an editor who showed some independence, left in 1964 when a Du Pont public relations executive was installed above him. Said Black at the time: "I for one need no further evidence that the ownership wants the Morning News and the Evening Journal operated as house organs...
...World Council of Churches, he and his church were in the middle of the principal movements of the decade. His proposal to unite Protestants into a big new church had attracted ten denominations with 25 million members, his prospering Presbyterians had just fashioned an up-to-date creed, and their ample, well-financed bureaucracy was in the forefront of the social crusades...
...summer reading on those winter flights to Miami or points south. The problem with Howard's Bag is how to teach an old gimmick new tricks. With preposterous ease, Howard's truth-loving new secretary catches on to his secret and converts him to her own uncomfortable creed. The reformed sinner sets off to attack conventional hypocrisy, instead of trading on it as he used to. The author apparently intended a series of hard and funny confrontations as Howard, now obsessed with mendacity, tries to force his neighbors to give up even the small lies that make life...
That is a rather unusual creed for a real estate developer. Butter-pecan houses? But Emil Hanslin, a weather-beaten, chain-smoking dynamo of 52, is an unusual developer. An early proponent of cluster housing, he is now experimenting with a new way to preserve open space. Says he: "It's a very simple thing but a big idea. The buyer buys the whole acre, but he gives up part of his land to the community. That makes him feel like the Rockefellers, creating a system of space that he can enjoy and others can enjoy...
...cannot say that innocent people have not suffered at the hands of racists, madmen or drug addicts. But I would like to point out that our community is no different from others all over the world that share problems of race, creed and bigotry. Ninety-nine percent of us Cruzans love our island and wish to share it with others. We are not afraid to stand behind...