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...first time. He lives with his wife and 15-year-old daughter in a still unfinished modern house with a $13,600 mortgage on it. He is up at 5 a.m. -"I never sleep more than five hours a night"-for a breakfast of black coffee, meat and fruit, drives himself to work in his Fiat. Because he has stuck so closely to his office, he is not well known to most Mexicans. Not until next week, when P.R.I, delegates and spectators jam Mexico City's giant bull ring to hear him accept the nomination, will a sizable crowd...
This discontent is furthered by by having comparatively the best education in the Caribbean. Having smelt the fruit, they find it unattainable...
Assumed Certitude. Just as religion is necessary to the political life, so is it necessary to the intellectual life of modernity, which "has largely lost the way to ripen the fruit of its own genius." When Descartes announced his famous Cogito, ergo sum as the basis for a philosophy, neither he nor his successors realized that he actually was assuming that "his private certitude was everyman's certitude in kind." Modern men, taking him at face value, not only plunged "into his subjective depths"; they also tended to accept his belief that the physical universe is merely a mathematical...
...Against Death. Son of a Swiss professor of pedagogy, Daniel Bovet recalls: "We children were guinea pigs for testing father's educational theories. It was wonderful." As a boy. he grew mushrooms in the family cellar, cultivated molds in his mother's fruit jars. In 1929 the famed Pasteur Institute of Paris offered Biologist Bovet a job. By 1932 news reached Paris that Germany's Gerhard Domagk had found that a dye product, prontosil could be used to kill bacteria that cause common infections. Bovet and his colleagues at the Pasteur found that prontosil was "a clumsy...
...where they find preconditions legally and psychologically favorable . . . Examples of violations of private foreign rights, both in highly developed and less developed countries, are known to us all. Among the more recent are the methods applied in nationalizing properties of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., in expropriating the United Fruit Co. properties by Guatemala, and finally in expropriating the Suez Canal." Abs also cited instances of indirect interferences with the rights of private foreign capital. Among them: the withholding of essential raw materials, the refusal of import licenses and excessive taxation...