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Sweeping into Bonn last week accompanied by Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon and a corps of 24 advisers, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson had only one thought in mind. Come hell or high water, he was determined to jar the West Germans into parting with enough Deutsche Mark to make a major dent in the increasing deficit (an estimated $4 billion for 1960) in the U.S.'s international balance of payments. Brushing aside the cautionary briefings of U.S. diplomats on the spot, Anderson confronted West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard with...
...Speaking in tongues is no longer a phenomenon of some odd sect across the street," the Living Church (Episcopal) editorialized. "It is in our midst, and it is being practiced by clergy and laity who have stature and good reputation in the Church ... Its widespread introduction would jar against our esthetic sense and some of our more strongly entrenched preconceptions. But we know that we are members of a Church which definitely needs jarring ... If God has chosen this time to dynamite what Bishop Sterling of Montana has called 'Episcopalian respectabilianism,' we know no more terrifyingly effective explosive...
...have the whiphand over blokes like me, and I'm almost dead sure it always will be that way, but even so, by Christ, I'd rather be like I am-always on the run and breaking into shops for a packet of fags and a jar of jam-than have the whiphand over someone else and be dead from the toenails...
...Leyden was one who sat at Dürer's feet, but as his Mary with Child shows, he worked in a still more tenderly mysterious vein than that of his master. At the Virgin's left sits a powerful and pensive Mary Magdalene, holding a jar of ointment and looking like a second, less spiritual mother to the child, a sort of earth mother. At her feet kneels the picture's donor, who wanted himself painted as a pilgrim...
From such tests as these and others, Stanley engineers hope to learn just how much of a jar a human can endure, and for how long. Says Expert Galen A. Holcomb: "We don't want to know how to break a man's neck. We just want to know the point before breaking...