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...show that this agnostic's principal gift to human understanding is a spiritual one. "I don't believe in God," he says, "but I don't believe in man either. Humanism has failed. It didn't prevent the monstrous acts of our generation. It has lent itself to excusing and justifying all kinds of horrors. It has misunderstood man. It has tried to cut him off from all other manifestations of nature...
...underrates the real power of top managers and bankers (who lent more money last year than ever before), and overlooks the fact that an energetic free market rejects thousands of new products every year, despite all the elaborate plans of groupthinkers. The ornery and unpredictable consumer is not quite as easily spoon-fed or nose-led by Madison Avenue or the technostructure as Galbraith suggests...
...Americans were known to have joined the fighting-or were needed-but at least one, the Rev. Vendyl Jones of Sudan, Texas, lent civilian support. Wandering near the Jordan border from a kibbutz where he had been working, the Baptist minister started talking to the Israeli commander, who soon discovered that the Rev. Mr. Jones possessed a rare skill. His eyes, though colorblind, are somehow uniquely sensitive to the kind of synthetic dyes used in camouflage fabrics. "When I see that kind of dye," he explained, "it shines like new money." Peering through binoculars, he soon spotted, clear as neon...
...more than $3,000,000. But why not? Though Ernest Medders, 57, was only a $50-a-week mechanic's helper, barely able to feed his wife Margaret and ten children, he told folks that he was about to inherit an oilfield worth $500 million. So everybody lent him money: bankers, merchants, even a religious order called the Poor Sisters of St. Francis, which went for $1,900,000. It all came to an end, alas, two months ago, when the money ran out and the Medderses admitted that there was no inheritance; the U.S. Supreme Court had dismissed...
Because of the demand, Abbott charges $16.20 per 1000 capsules wholesale for Nembutol. In his book, Burack lists 15 other reliable companies that make the generic equiva- lent--all but one of them for less than half the price, seven of them for less than one-third the price and one for just...