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...than two years), since load factors on its Electras are running 6% to 10% below the rest of the fleet. To try to counteract the Electra's bad publicity, American has organized a truth squad of veteran Electra pilots, which is touring cities served by its Electras to extol the virtues of the aircraft...
This sociological-psychological fact, thinks Teacher Goldstein, a nondenominational Protestant, has profound theological results. Insecure and anxious like most men, theologians (there has never been a woman theologian of note) tend to equate the restless self-concern that results from this state with sin, and to extol the opposite (feminine) qualities of quiet, self-surrendering passivity. Such theologians as Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, Sweden's Anders Nygren and Israel's Martin Buber see man as estranged from himself and from God and filled with anxiety because of his estrangement; that anxiety, in their view, results in sins...
...Economist, many an ad relies with "desperate emphasis" on the implication that "we know this product is not competitive in price or design, but it is British-made and we've been making it for a very long time." When the British Travel Association sets out to extol the virtues of British food, the Economist says, "native critics feel distinctly uneasy," for "where would the tourist find that exquisite rare roast beef?" Ads for clean, spacious British Railways carriages are so far from the grubby reality that they "are guaranteed to make any Englishman blush...
Energetic, engaging Luther Hodges, 60, ranks as the South's No. i salesman. He is constantly traveling (63,000 miles last year) and speechifying (150 last year) to extol North Carolina's attractions for industry. Among them, as listed by Celanese: "An adequate supply of skilled and semiskilled personnel, attractive residential areas, an excellent public school system, a good network of state and county highways." The state also has a right-to-work law and the lowest rate of unionization in the nation (only 8.3% of North Carolina's nonfarm workers are organized). Since Hodges became Governor...
...usually placid Seminole Indians get a crazy feeling, they drink an ancient tranquilizing tea brewed by the medicine man. This news finally reached the drug world recently through an ex-G.I. with a yen for tranquilizers. He rushed into the Upjohn Co.'s headquarters in Kalamazoo to extol the Seminole tea virtues, especially its lack of side effects. The man who brewed it for him, he reported, was none other than Josie Billie, or Kachanagofte (Big Tiger), onetime chief Seminole medicine man for 25 years and the only person alive who knows the formula...