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...Addressing a nostalgic reunion of alte Herren (old grads,) the Chancellor defended Germany's tradition of fraternities, which are widely accused of fostering authoritarianism. Though at 87 Adenauer has seen most if not all of his old fraternity classmates die, he is still a loyal member of Arminia* (motto: True! Free...
...York prayer decision stirred widespread alarm-not so much for what it said as for what people thought it said. Misled by headlines, many thought that the court had all but ordered an end to all ties between government and religion, even chaplains in the armed services and the motto "In God We Trust" on the currency. Such fears are, to be sure, given some substance by a small but militant fringe that insists upon a total erasure of all traces of religion in government. Last week, for example, the American Civil Liberties Union brought suit in a California state...
...letters of acceptance mailed in the spring of 1959 bore the post-mark "Our task is still to build." Originally the motto of the Program for Harvard College, it has since come to reflect the atmosphere of growth to which the Class of '63 has been exposed...
Within the black granite walls of the Stockholms Enskilda Bank is a coat of arms that bears a sober motto, borrowed from Aeschylus: Esse non Videri - to be, not to seem. In line with this injunction, the family that runs the bank has become the most powerful and wealthiest in Sweden, without seeming to be the fiscal princes they...
...year Ian Campbell made headlines by taking as his second wife Louise Vanneck. daughter of U.S. Sculptor Henry Clews. (His first: Janet Aitken. Lord Beaverbrook's daughter.) Though unmentioned in the song, Campbell was even more Top than Mrs. Sweeny. In 1949 he became Duke of Argyll (family motto: "Forget Not"), Chief of Clan Campbell, Hereditary Master of the King's Household in Scotland, Admiral of the Western Coasts and Isles. Hereditary Sheriff of Argyll, Keeper of Dunstaffnage, Carrick, Tarbert and Dunoon Castles, and heir to a Burke's dozen earldoms, viscountcies, marquisates and baronetcies. Favored Four...