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Teacher Walter Merlino last week provided his students with a superb example" of the Midtown dogma of doing, not learning. He suggested that his class go to the Los Angeles Federal Building to join women demonstrators in a march against atomic testing. "You should feel strongly against atom testing before you march." cautioned Merlino, who then talked foggily about fallout, concluding: "The point is to at least stop the U.S. and at least cut the amount of fallout in half. Who wants to go?" Every child, presumably filled with strong feelings, raised his hand...
...biggest in the West, has shrunk from a peak of 2,500,000 to 1,700,000 last year. Economically, Free Europe is in an unprecedented boom and moving toward political unity-the result of a remarkable alliance between capitalism and democratic socialism. All of this confounds Leninist-Stalinist dogma, which in 1952 predicted that the industrially advanced nations would destroy themselves in a shooting war over foreign markets. The combined industrial potential of Western Europe, the U.S. and Britain will for an indefinite period far outweigh the potential of the Red bloc...
...hailed by the Kremlin as the hottest thing in Communist ideology in 40 years, designed to place Nikita right up there with Marx and Lenin among the philosophers of mankind. Not since 1919, when Lenin produced his own massive program, had a new draft of the party's dogma been put on paper.* Now, at vast length, all the distant promises and ambitious boasts were reaffirmed, in rhetoric that was at least somewhat more readable, if less dialectically skillful than Lenin's ( "A mighty unifying thunderstorm, marking the springtime of mankind, is raging over the earth...
...target for 1970 is a 150% increase, which would hardly more than equal the U.S. 1960 level. And by 1970, the U.S. itself will have pushed production far above today's mark-barring, of course, the complete collapse of the capitalist system predicted so persistently by Communist dogma ever since Karl Marx emerged from the British Museum. "The inexorable process of decay has seized capitalism from top to bottom. It has entered the period of decline and collapse," said Khrushchev's new call to arms. But even Khrushchev felt it necessary to find some excuse for capitalism...
...echo a hearty "Amen" to the remarks of Dr. Samuel Howard Miller in the article "Hunger of the Heart" [TIME, June 16]. The need is indeed great for a critical re-examination of ancient religious dogma...