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Many of their statements are made possible only by interpreting the sixty percent agreement that "some form of religious orientation...is required for a fully mature philosophy of life,"(from the Council report) to mean a pilgrimage en masse to houses of worship and a dynamic religious rebirth. Even H.D. Aiken might go along with such a vaguely all-inclusive phrasing as "some form of religious orientation." From many such statements as "increased concern over the ultimate meaning of life" equated with manifestations of religious zeal of the Norman Vincent Peale variety, the article derives its resounding afflrmations about religion...
When a Russian says someone has "passed him a pig" he means that he has been done a dirty trick. Last week Nikita Khrushchev, who farrows folksy epigrams wherever his pudgy frame goes, told a gathering of farm bosses and workers that if only they would concentrate on producing more pigs, say two per citizen, the expression "passing a pig" would mean doing a good deed, instead of a bad one. In the next breath Khrushchev passed Soviet citizenry its biggest pig in many a year: he declared a moratorium on 260 billion rubles ($65billion) lent to the state...
...with our faith. We made mistakes, but our aim and ambition were pure and honest. I do not worry about my own fate. One can get used to prison. But if I go to prison, my family-an ailing wife and three children-will break up. That does not mean I am asking for mercy. If this court has no confidence in me, then it should give me the most severe sentence. For if the court has no confidence in me, I do not want to be a free man." Said the judge, as Obersovszky turned away from the microphone...
...investors and consumers. Said Henry Ford II recently; "Any attempt by labor or capital to grab the total increase in productivity, or more, can lead only to price inflation and/or shrinkage of the total market." But if management and labor can agree on an equitable split that will also mean increased dividends to investors plus stable or lower prices to consumers, then most economists believe that the failure to step up productivity in 1956 will soon be overcome...
WASHINGTON, April 21--New cost-of-living figures due to be announced by the government this week are expected to mean a pay raise for about 1,200,000 workers. The total increase will approximate 75 million dollars a year...