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Brimstone & Hysteria. There was plenty to reform. The hill people are fond of a local liquor that approaches 200-proof, and their disregard for God's commandment against adultery makes Hollywood seem puritanical. Incest is common. "I know dozens of cousins who are living together," Jessie Hyde said recently. "I know men who stay with their aunts and girls who stay with their uncles...
Sewing Machines & School. By 1941 Duttweiler had amassed a fortune of $4,000,000. With a characteristic disregard for the conventional, he decided he had little use for great wealth or good living. So he gave away his Migros stores to his family of 120,000 registered customers, one share apiece, turning the whole business into a cooperative. For himself, he kept $250,000. He also turned his estate outside Zurich into an amusement park, moved into a four-room house where he and his wife live without servants, and from which he drives to work in a mouse-sized...
...membership in the U.N. ... I think the objection of the majority of American voters to China's membership is not that we object to China's or Russia's Communistic effort but to the wayCommunism . . . has always been administered by sordid racketeers in total disregard of their subjects' rights...
...record of [Oppenheimer's] actions reveals a frequent and deliberate disregard of those security regulations which restrict a man's associations. He was engaged in a highly delicate area of security; within this area he occupied a most sensitive position. The requirement that a man in this position should relinquish the right to the complete freedom of association that would be his in other circumstances is altogether a reasonable and necessary requirement ... It was particularly essential in the case of Dr. Oppenheimer. It will not do to plead that Dr. Oppenheimer revealed no secrets to the Communists...
Heydrich fascinates Hoettl, and he compares him to Cesare Borgia. "Both men were imbued with the same complete disregard for all ethical values . . . the same passion for power, the same cold intelligence, the same frigidity of heart, the same systematically calculated ambition, and even the same physical beauty of a fallen angel." Hoettl saddles Fallen Angel Heydrich with a satanic list of deeds. It was Heydrich, according to Hoettl, who worked out the plans for the mass extermination of the Jews and for the stringent Nazi subjugation of Czechoslovakia.* It was Heydrich who planted the idea in Hitler...