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...leading monks of the New Order met in a cave to decide on the first collection of their master's teachings: the universality of suffering and the Eightfold Path by which one might escape from it-right belief, right contemplation, right speech, right work, right livelihood, right exercise, right mindfulness, right concentration...
...program that does not deal in pie-in-the-sky promises to all, nor in bribes to a few, nor in threats to any. It is a program inspired by zeal for the common good, dedicated to the welfare of every American family-whatever its means of livelihood may be, or its social position, or its ancestral strain, or its religious affiliation...
Villiers may be a partisan of sail, but he is no salt-sprayed sentimentalist. Sailing men may have loved their ships and their calling, but "it was first and foremost a source of employment, a means of livelihood. [The sailor] hated the sea as a savage enemy." Says Author Villiers tartly: "It is landsmen who speak of 'the call of the sea.' " The pay was wretched and the food was often worse. When steam brought hard times, many owners made up crews of teen-age boys who paid for the experience. One such crew of youngsters...
...year in and year out, see no improvement in their lives, and many don't have the nerve or ambition to want any. These are our starving ones-not starved for food, but for stable home life, religious training, proper channeling of talents toward making a productive livelihood, ability to amuse themselves...
...Italy's fourth largest city, is the capital of Italian industry. It is also the biggest company town in the world, dominated by a single colossus world-famed for its name: Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino). Almost two-thirds of Turin's 735,000 people owe their livelihood to Fiat; off the assembly lines of its 15 plants roll 90% of Italy's cars. But automaking is only the core of Fiat's industrial empire. A visitor to Turin rides to a Fiat-owned hotel in a Fiat taxi, reads a Fiat newspaper, drinks Fiat...