Word: preached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...genial strategy of survival. He wants another term as Fed chairman, and not because he likes to go to capital par ties and enjoys the aroma of power (which he does). But he thinks he is doing right by the nation to restrain the money sup ply, to preach a little caution, to stand immune from White House blandishments and politics. Burns views his ideas as good for the country's soul - and its pocketbook...
...nice of Evangelist Palau [Nov. 7] to fly down to South America with his Bible from his clean Oregon home to preach Jesus to the lost "machismo minded" Latins...
Such a career would have been impossible for a Latin Protestant until recently, given the Roman Catholic church's Latin American territorial imperative. But Palau, 42, began his preach ing travels as the Second Vatican Council was deciding that Protestants were not heretics but just "separated brethren." Now even Latin bishops urge their faithful to attend his rallies...
Still, Trivers agrees that the critics have a point in being concerned about the social implications of what sociobiologists preach. "Social theory," he says, "ought to be looked at from the standpoint of what its implications are. It's not like particle physics." Wilson's book, for instance, raises some unsettling questions that most social theorists shy away from: Is it possible that social classes reflect genetic differences? Do the upper classes gradually accumulate a separate and superior gene pool? After stating that the idea has "plausibility," Wilson goes on to say there is "little evidence" of its truth: culture...
Driving, Couture suggests, should ultimately become a system of controlled reflexes. Developing the reflexes is "not a matter of guts, but of brains. Ideally you sit behind the wheel like a computer." Safety is the first priority. The finest racers preach, "First finish. Then finish first."-We walked the track, Couture explaining, always explaining, how to attack each bend, each kink. Then he drove us to the cars: Formula Fords, long-nosed fiber-glass machines that weigh about 950 lbs. and are powered by a standard Pinto engine. Formula Fords are stripped for speed: no windscreen, no headlights, no speedometer...