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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harris, "that the people we need will want to get involved." To this end, Harris will name a Democratic Advisory Council to provide the "out" party with the ideological thrust of a shadow government so that it can develop its own legislative programs and keep its platform up to date...
...Canada's swinging Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has never been one to shun the public eye. So when he went to London for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference, he took along a planeload of newsmen. Then reporters got Divorcee Eva Rittinghausen to gush after a date with the P.M., "it was love at first sight." And photographers would not go away when Trudeau and Actress Jennifer Hales tried to steal away to the theater. Annoyed at last, Trudeau made it clear that a public figure-and especially a 49-year-old bachelor-is still a private person...
...public function, he is not above grabbing a snare drum and playing it, to the delight of the crowd. There is also an almost Victorian courtesy about him, to visitors as well as to his own people. Like the quadrilles he enjoys dancing, it is touchingly out of date. But it goes over well with Liberians. Not long ago, he fired one of his district commissioners because the man had insulted a cripple. At banquets given during his visits into the hinterlands, he will occasionally take the last place in the line-to make sure that everyone gets something...
...question, the social sciences are now proposing some extraordinarily complicated new answers. First and foremost, man is an animal-but he is neither the end product of evolution nor much more than a mediocre biological success. The body he inhabits is primitive, at least 50,000 years out of date. Basically, he is one of the world's most aggressive beasts, who, the scientists say, fundamentally enjoys torturing and killing other animals, including his fellow man in the sport known...
Converts to Soka Gakkai are a mixed assortment of religion seekers. Some were first attracted to Oriental thought by an exposure to Zen; others have worked their way through a number of religions without finding spiritual satisfaction. The most notable seeker to date is a onetime Mormon elder who tried 30 different religions before joining the sect. Negroes who join the movement claim to be impressed by the absence of racial prejudice. Whatever their motives for joining, converts generally admire the warmth and zeal of the sect's prayer meetings. "I felt like I wasn't really alone...