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What chiefly impelled him to this view was ministering to a parish in Detroit from 1915 to 1928. He saw the Ford Motor Co. as a devouring god Baal that dehumanized and depersonalized man, and Henry Ford I as a false prophet who "promised to solve all social problems but aggravated most of them." As Niebuhr saw it, Ford's boast of a $5-a-day wage was nothing but a sham, since most of his workers were employed only sporadically and had no insurance against unemployment, illness and old age. In the same pragmatic way, the slaughter...
...offered the far more plausible diagnosis of episodic psychosis, Belli refused to abandon his pet theory-which five prosecution medical witnesses then tore to shreds. Not surprisingly, one assistant prosecutor felt free to play the defense for laughs: "I wonder if they got their psychomotor variant from the psycho-motor pool...
Died. Enrico Piaggio, 60, Italy's Vespa king, a wartime aircraft manufacturer who revolutionized European road travel with his 1946 development of a low-cost motor scooter that now sells in more than 120 countries; of peritonitis; in Varramista, Italy...
...asked the Chief of Police to confer with the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles and representatives of Harvard and M.I.T. in an attempt to curtail the noise, which it termed "a source of nuisance and severe discomfort...
City Councillor Bernard Goldberg, who introduced the Council order asking for police action, said yesterday "I'm not trying to cut out the use of motorcycles or motor scooters. I'm ust trying to cut down on their abuse...