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...authority of the state not to control and harry the individual but to curb the power of states which arise within the state, just as kings did with overmighty subjects of old." By the time he had finished, Conservatives were exchanging assurances that Rab Butler was back in the fray. "Now we don't need to worry about where to find our next Prime Minister," said...
...incapable of winning in the series, failed again, unhappily slouched off the field under the Yankees' second-inning fusillade, later relieved his frustration by taking a poke at a heckling parking-lot attendant. But his teammates went on a rampage. Stengel flung one pitcher after another into the fray (for a World Series record of seven), but the Dodgers hit them all impartially and often, whenever they were not drawing walks (the Yankees' seven pitchers issued eleven bases on balls, another series record). The game produced several other records. The Dodgers' six runs in the second inning...
Councillor Al Vellucci, who gained local notoriety last spring through his Harvard-baiting tactics, returned to the fray yesterday with a radical threat to send a highway through the middle of Harvard yard...
...have become a bit too worldly," the abbot of Zen Daitokuji Temple insisted nevertheless that one bad priest should not be used to damn the entire clergy. The priests found an unexpected ally in Kyoto's Communists who. bitterly opposing the mayor on any count, promptly joined the fray with a sound truck that blared out the charge that Takayama was "persecuting religion." With their most pious mien, the priests thereupon barred the doors of their temples to all but "genuine worshipers," whom they admitted free. The definition of a "genuine worshiper"? One who agreed to make a "voluntary...
Many business leaders are becoming increasingly aware that management cannot play an effective role in politics merely by contributing cash in election years or leaping into the fray when threatened with hostile legislation. If business is to live up to its social responsibilities, they argue, businessmen will have to devote to politics the inventiveness and drive that they lavish full-time on their jobs. Says U.S. Chamber of Commerce President John S. Coleman: "We must have a point of view−a philosophy that will permit us, instead of resisting change, to play a creative role in controlling and directing...