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Increased overcrowding and the resultant far-flung distribution of excess students necessitated the change, it is believed. But even under the new scheme, the University will be overcrowded by 47 percent of its normal occupancy, Watson pointed...
Everywhere that industry grew, the managers studied how to pull all the far-flung parts together and make them work more efficiently-so that, in effect, shareholders, executives and workmen would get increasing return from an hour's productive work. And what they studied hardest was the amazing efficiency of General Motors and how it had achieved...
Actually it is just these far-flung secular interests, drawn together in an attempt "to relate all cultural realms to the religious center," that make Tillich's theology as appealing as it is to modern America. His emphasis on existentialism, expressed in such sermons as "Man Against Mass Society" and in his undergraduate course on "Religion and Culture," has particularly attracted college students who, as the Professor says, "have been disillusioned by science." And in his four months at Harvard, according to the Rev. Frederic Kellogg of Christ Episcopal Church, "Tillich has crystallized the great religious interest that was already...
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Browsing through a marketplace in Tashkent, capital of the Soviet Union's irrigation-ditched Uzbek Republic, a U.S. newsman spotted a cowboy hat, asked its wearer if he was an American. The far-flung tourist, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, reckoned he was. Later, Douglas dashed to a nearby cotton-growing collective farm, where he had a joyful, isn't-it-a-small-world meeting with the dozen U.S. farmers also touring the U.S.S.R...