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...frequently in church preaching, the indulgence was made out to be some sort of magic: a good deed automatically got its reward, regardless of the disposition of the doer's soul...
...latest book on the Peace Corps, The Barrios of Manta, illustrates the in-between nature of the Volunteer's role, both as learner and doer. The authors, Earle and Rhode Brooks, lived in Manta, a fishing town on the coast of Eduador for 20 months. Mainly their book sketches in greater detail a side of the Peace Corps that is already familiar to most Americans: its successes. The Brooks talk of doubts and discouragement but there is no hiding the fact that, in comparison with most Peace Corps Volunteers, they were outstandingly successful...
Tsien Hsue-shen's Degrees. Yet any picture of Caltech solely as thinker and M.I.T. solely as doer is out of focus. While M.I.T. draws no less than $126 million of its annual operating budget of $178 million from work for the Defense Department and NASA, Caltech has 181 federal research contracts and operates NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will spend $242 million this year. Caltech's practical knowledge made JPL a pioneer in tactical missiles, in launching the first U.S. satellite, in making a soft landing on the moon and in taking close-up pictures...
...children on all continents, entices the octogenarians of the Himalayas, delights beach bathers throughout the world, has become a varsity sport in the armed services, and in 1964 became an official Olympic sport. The news media thrive on the spectator interests in the sports world, but it is the doer rather than the watcher who is the real sportsman...
Indira retained her image as a doer in other fields. When riots broke out last year in southern India, against the establishment of Hindi as the country's official language, Indira flew to the center of the violence in Madras and calmed the Tamil-speaking mobs by promising that the matter would be reconsidered (Shastri later shelved...