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Dessie, Ethiopia Four Horsemen Sir: The identification of the first two Horse men in Revelations seems so obvious that I am amazed at ex-President Hoover's attempt [TIME, Sept. 29] to make the second Horse man stand for Revolution. On a red horse, with a great sword, he takes "peace from the earth"and makes men "kill one another...
...Does Mr. Hoover think that Christ gave John a "Revolution"? JOAN HUGHES Canton, Ohio Freedom on Fiji SIR: MOHAMMED TORAH's SNEER ABOUT FIJI AS WHITE MAN'S PARADISE, BLACK MAN'S HELL [TIME, Sept. 22] is RIDICULOUS. IN FIJI NEA LY 35O,OOO PEOPLE OF SEVERAL RACES LIVE AMICABLY. STANDARDS OF LIVING ARE HIGH...
...Just 30 years after Herbert Hoover became U.S. President on the slogan: "Two cars in every garage...
...described in the catalogue as "one of America's pioneer captains of industry") had wanted to build a technical institution but was convinced by "educational advisers" to widen the scope of his new school. Although an old edition of the Oxford Directory might call engineering a trade, Herbert Hoover would say it is a profession, and Lehigh educators have consistently agreed with Hoover...
...latter Washington years, Modern Republican Rockefeller clashed more and more often with such Administration conservatives as Treasury Secretary George Humphrey and Budget Director Joseph Dodge, who thought his suggestions sometimes too expensive, and Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., who frequently thought them too bold. In 1955 Rockefeller quit Washington, went home to New York. Friends are certain that somewhere along in here he resolved to try for office himself. "He felt," said a friend, "he had to run for elective office, because nobody really paid any attention to someone who was only an appointee...