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...project director, had to make the final decisions on any hair-raising problems during the Mars encounter. He has worked on the Corporal and Jupiter missiles, was systems manager of the Mariner II Venus probe. His ideal: "To remain a virgin in outlook, not litter my mind with dogma...
...editorial entitled "A Paper for the People" promised that "the Southern Courier is independent of its advertisers, of politicians, of dogma, and of any group or organization. We will point out merits or demerits wherever we find them, treating whites and Negroes alike...
Died. Celia Guevara, 58, mother of Che, Fidel Castro's Argentine-born jack-of-all-subversion, a screeching Communist fanatic who raised her nino on Marxist dogma but never had the influence she wanted until her son's rise to power in Cuba, after which she traveled the hemisphere as a Communist Front organizer clad in leather jacket and Basque beret, and forever sporting a pistol-even when she sat down to dinner; of cancer; in Buenos Aires...
Discarding Dogma. Stokely Carmichael, 23, born in Trinidad but raised in Harlem, used to be a doctrinaire socialist. During National Student Association conferences, he remembers from his high school days, "I took the floor and said just any ridiculous thing. Here were students from all over the country, and they never would have attacked me no matter what I said, because I was a Negro. The whole thing has shifted so much, if you're a Negro and among a white group, you're good, you're great, you're-but I am sure you know...
...word for dogma in Chinese translates literally to "eight-legged." This comes from the eight-part essays of feudal times which candidates for office had to write. Each of the eight sections of the essay had to conform to an unflexible pattern, each completely prescribed in both form and style. I was reminded of this etymology every time a paper was due, roughly once a week...