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...ghosts of the Depression have long since vanished from most segments of U.S. life???but in the internal revenue code, the soak-the-rich tone lingers on. In a departure from the old ideology of his party. President Kennedy has recognized that it is time to de-ghost the tax laws...
...insist that there is no basic conflict between religion and science?and a lot of scientists agree. They are convinced that if the Christian faith managed to assimilate Darwin there are few other scientific discoveries it cannot handle. Science's function is to describe the nature and phenomena of life???and leave the description of its purpose to religion. Says the University of California's Nobel-prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby: "Science and religion are not in conflict, nor are they in full cooperation. They are fulfilling very different needs...
...gloomier metaphor was ever coined to lend a semblance of shape to man's long struggle through history. Cultures, said Oswald Spengler, are limited biological forms of life???like inchworms, like oak trees, like men. Mysteriously born, they inexorably grow old, decay according to discernible pattern and then die. What is more, Spengler insisted, Western culture has already reached the last stages of its allotted life span...
When Calumet's own foals begin dropping early each year, no time is lost preparing them for their goal in life???the race track. Halters go on the wobbly legged foals when they are only two days old. Ben Jones and his hard-working farm manager, Paul ("Dutch") Ebelhardt, like horses to get used to human hands early. After that, the Calumet education proceeds with the greatest caution and care. Yearlings, for instance, are legged-up three months before being called on for speed over the farm's three-quarter-mile training track...
...come, let alone a business suit. For that reason they cheered wildly his new directive to the Communist Youth movement: "We are not against love! We are not against flowers! We are not ascetics and we do not preach asceticism. We are for a full and many-sided life???a life rich in experiences...