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...Whitney Clapsaddle who was employed by G.M., Gerstenberg found a job in 1932 as a timekeeper at the company's Frigidaire division in Dayton. Ever since, he has followed the first two parts of his father's advice to a tee-and totally disregarded the third. A devout believer in G.M.'s spartan work ethic, he became assistant comptroller at 39 and cont'nued to rise...
...Mount Sinai, God was unequivocal: "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Traditionally, most devout Christians have interpreted the Hebraic commandment to extend to all sexual relations outside marriage. Jesus even condemned lustful thoughts, saying that the man who indulged them had "already committed adultery in his heart." But in recent years, pressed both by changing sexual behavior and by liberal theologians, the churches have reluctantly come to grips with a "new morality" that questions whether any "sin"-including adultery or other nonmarital sex -is wrong in all circumstances...
...priests strengthened any propensities to emigration. The U.S. played a role as well. According to Bernard Fall, "the mass flight was admittedly the result of an extremely intensive, well-conducted, and, in terms of its objective, very successful American psychological warfare campaign. Propaganda slogans and leaflets appealed to the devout Catholics with such themes as 'Christ has gone to the South' and the 'Virgin Mary has departed from the North.' "If Ulam seriously believes that the people were voting with their feet, he might consider the ways the election was rigged...
...Then came last week's capture of a BOAC jet and the kidnaping of two of its Sudanese passengers. Gaddafi is young, dedicated, naive and, some say, irrational as well. He certainly is as impetuous in his personal life as in state affairs. Smitten by two Libyan girls, Devout Moslem Gaddafi married them both...
...during the past five years at an average rate of one per day, economic victims of inflation and a declining supply of nuns and priests available to teach for low salaries. Strangely enough, the schools' plight has converted many traditional opponents of state aid for church schools into devout advocates. The reasons have nothing to do with religious persuasion, but only with hard economic fact. The parochial schools once educated as many as 6,000,000 children, about 11% of the nation's school-age students, at comparatively little cost to the taxpayer. But the recent closing...