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Died. Dr. Louis Wirth, 54, University of Chicago sociologist, who regarded the modern big city as one of the sorriest products of civilization, once said: "We will either master this ominously complicated entity or perish under it"; of a heart attack; in Buffalo...
...devotion to the few remaining-that we here highly resolve that next year will not find us in the higher income bracket, that this taxpayer, underpaid, shall figure out more deductions, and that this tax of the people, by the Congress, for the Government, shall not cause solvency to perish...
...Senator Robert A. Toft: "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit . . . Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them" (Matthew 7: 18-20). U.S. Steel's President Benjamin A. Fairless: "Where there is no vision, the people perish; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he" (Proverbs 29:18). General Dwight Eisenhower: "When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace" (Luke...
...also given much of her time to pondering such questions as "After materialism, what?" and to deciding what, after all, life adds up to. She finds that she agrees pretty much with English Writer Thomas Burke (1886-1945), when he said, "All living is hunger, without hunger we perish...
...resolve at a high ethical level that the deceased shall not have been annihilated without furthering the project - that this group . . . shall implement a new source of unhampered activity- and that political supervision composed of the integrated units, for the integrated units, and by the integrated units shall not perish from . . . this planet...