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...speech at the centennial observations of Boston College Saturday, President Kennedy said, "We are learning to talk the language of progress and peace across the barriers of sect and creed. It seems reasonable to hope that a similar process may be taking place across the quite different barrier of the higher learning.... The new realities of our day have combined to intensify the focal role of the university.... Accelerating change is the one universal human prospect. The universities must help...
...Baath Idea. The new government is clearly antiCommunist, and all but five ministers are either members of or closely linked to the Baath (renaissance) Party. More an idea than an ideology, the basic Baath doctrine insists that "there are no Arab nations; there is only one Arab nation." This creed is, of course, warmly embraced by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, but Aref and Iraq's Baath Party seem hardly eager to fall under Cairo's domination. The Baathist leaders in Iraq, in fact, have reshaped their doctrine of Arab unity into a concept of federation...
...management and new ideas. Two years ago, faced with enormous retooling costs and an ominous sales slump, the Coventry automaker succumbed to a takeover bid by Leyland Motors Ltd., Britain's biggest truck and bus maker. Leyland's laconic Chairman Sir Henry Spurrier, 64, follows a simple creed. "We don't run risks," he snaps. "We run Leyland." Sir Henry introduced the new regime at Standard by easing out former Standard Boss Alick Dick, 46, the imaginative onetime boy wonder of the British auto industry; in as Dick's replacement went Lancashire-born Stanley Markland...
Nationalism is an anachronism-our paramount loyalty is to the human race." But Toynbee overlooks the basic human impulse which, so far at least, seems to find greatest satisfaction in a nation of common instinct and common creed...
...defunct), he found nothing of value, he said, but an all-night delicatessen. He went back to the homestead in Lampasas County, Texas. There, on 300 acres renamed Black Sheep Retreat, he farmed, designed a pigsty, wrote many articles and more books. For a visitor, he scribbled a hasty creed: "Clean copy. Hard work. Better to know the truth than not. Avoid dullness. Young newspapermen are the best people on earth...