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Rabbi Zigmond would have had some trouble if he had tried a decade ago, when Mem Church was under the leadership of the Rev. George A. Buttrick. But-trick said "it would be intellectually dishonest for Christian and Jewish marriages to be carried on beneath the same roof...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Tradition Is Broken As Jews Hold Holy Days Services in Mem Church | 9/26/1966 | See Source »

...most people, if pressed, will face up to and admit their own missteps. There are no accurate measurements, but this is suggested by many factors, from opinion surveys to the behavior of defendants in court. It is a hopeful sign, because perhaps the worst part of dishonesty is being dishonest with oneself. As Groucho Marx said: "There's one way to find out if a man is honest-ask him. If he says yes, you know he's crooked." Americans on the whole do not seem to overrate their dishonesty-or their honesty, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: LARCENY IN EVERYDAY LIFE | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

...revolutionary military regime rammed through a tough universal income-tax law that set realistic tax rates* streamlined the archaic collection system, made tax dodgers liable to two years in prison. In to run the operation moved Orlando Travancas, 47, a reform-bent tax official who has weeded out dishonest inspectors, set up a school to train new ones, and installed ten computers to keep track of returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: The Antipatriotic Triumph Of Travancas the Terrible | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...arrogance" that Fulbright attributes to U.S. foreign policy better describes the dishonest, anti-intellectual and embittered attitude of the Senator and his liberal coterie. After slumbering in a deep sleep through 20 years of world history, they suddenly awake to find that facts do not adhere to their theories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 13, 1966 | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...hatreds run deep. Makarios, now President of Cyprus, considers Grivas a trigger-happy jackboot bent on grabbing full power on the island. Grivas in turn claims that Makarios is vacillating, dishonest, and a dupe of the Communists, who has no intention of honoring his pledge to bring about enosis, the unity of Cyprus with Greece. In 1964, the Greek government seemed to side with Grivas when it sent him to Nicosia to take charge of Cyprus' 11,000-man National Guard, the regular 950-man Greek army contingent, and some 8,500 mainland "volunteers" stationed in Cyprus to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyprus: Toward a Boiling Point | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

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