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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communist indoctrination in schools has perforce turned soft-sell. Polish universities dropped compulsory-and widely scorned-cram courses in "Rudiments of Marxism-Leninism," now offer more flexible discussion courses on "Main Problems of Marxist Philosophy." Grade schools offer a new course called "civic education" directed at convincing children of "the superiority of the socialist system over the capitalist system," mainly by studying the party organization and local government in action...
Relations & Romance. As in the old days, the housewife is bombarded with programs whose aim is to exploit at least five of the seven deadly sins. Avarice and gluttony are the main components of such game shows as Let's Make a Deal, where husbands and wives bicker as they try to guess the prices of lawn sprinklers and diet bread, and Supermarket Sweep, where grocery shelves are swept clean by tense men with shopping carts racing against a clock. Envy, too, is an important ingredient of the game-show recipe. The housewife who abandons diaper and vacuum cleaner...
...getting themselves in shape to play. Drysdale had been working out, but Koufax had done nothing more strenuous all spring than play a round of golf-and it was a good bet that neither would be ready to pitch nine innings before the season was two weeks old. "Our main concern," said Dodger Manager Walter Alston, "is to make sure they don't overtax their arms and injure them." Naturally, at those prices...
...What unites the various contemporary approaches to the problem of God is the conviction that the primary question has become not what God is, but how men are justified in using the word. There is no unanimity about how to solve this problem, although theologians seem to have four main options: stop talking about God for awhile, stick to what the Bible says, formulate a new image and concept of God using contemporary thought categories, or simply point the way to areas of human experience that indicate the presence of something beyond man in life...
...rubber goods producers, Pirelli is "about equal with Michelin." Worldwide, Pirelli acknowledged, his group is far behind such giants as Goodyear and Firestone, but that didn't seem to bother him. He does not intend to in vade their home markets in the U.S.; and therefore, "in the main, it will be a battle between our subsidiaries and their subsidiaries in specific markets, and in many cases our branches will be bigger than theirs...