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Many will fight for the security of the corporate state, even if that security is a deception and an instrument of anguish. Nor are such people likely to vanish through the cycle of generations. Parents raise children in their own image, and most children comply. The apparent radicalism of many high school and junior high students may be no more than the unenlightened protection of group self-interests such as the New Deal...
...ISSUE of black citizenship occasioned in the Fourteenth Amendment the instrument through which government completed its self-disqualification from competence in religion. The issue of first-class black citizenship possibly occasioned, through the instrumentality of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the beginning of the church's move to reclaim the civil order. When Martin Luther King took to the streets in 1956 to challenge laws of the land, and when masses followed him, and when clergy followed the masses, the new "activist church" entered the headlines and the separated civil and religious orders in America moved from a substantially...
Though Vietnamese pilots often must sit on pillows to see over the instrument panel of American-made planes, they are by no means short on combat experience. Most American pilots, whose combat tour in Viet Nam usually lasts only one year, can expect to fly 200 to 300 sorties, or about 400 to 600 combat hours. Many Vietnamese pilots have been flying combat missions for years and boast up to 4,000 flying hours, 90% of them in combat. As a result, says General Lucius D. Clay Jr., commander of the Seventh Air Force and son of the famous World...
Parker came upon his evidence quite by accident. To aid in a study of water pollution in St. Louis two years ago, he invented a device that could measure pollutants and nutrients in water. He set the instrument in his goldfish pond and found that after a rainfall, particularly after a thunderstorm, the amount of free nutrients (vitamin B12, for example) in the water suddenly increased. Because such substances are normally associated with living organisms, Parker could not imagine why they should be present in rainwater-"unless there is something going on up there...
...sense of the social-political-economic role of the telephone in a modern industrial society. They can design, promote, distribute and install a Princess telephone that will transmit the human voice. But they are seemingly incapable of thinking about the ways in which people might use that instrument in their lives. What would be the social impact of universal availability of a low-price long-distance service without a per-call charge? They don't know...