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...Lynd, the history of American radicalism has been a series of accelerating "guerrilla attacks upon the right of property." A Quaker as well as a Marxist, he is at his most original in suggesting that members of Nonconformist English sects-many from the Society of Friends, as were William Penn and Thomas Paine-were the first of the guerrillas. In the latter part of the 18th century, these Dissenters argued that the only "absolute and inalienable" rights were human rights, not property rights. Bringing theology and politics into coincidence, they established conscience-the "inner light"-as the divine right...
Penn's victory was its first against Princeton in 13 years. Sophomore sensation Hugh Curry scored a decisive double triumph over rival Bobby Goeltz to lead the Quaker effort. After stopping Goeltz 7-5, 6-3 in singles, Curry whipped him again in doubles 6-1, 6-4 to clinch the match...
...gourmand in every dog and cat, and last year they spent $52.5 million to advertise their argument more than 80% of it on television. Accounting for some 75% of the advertising dollars were: General Foods (Gaines and Top Choice-$11.5 million), Ralston Purina (Chow-$11 1 million), Quaker Oats (Puss 'n Boots Ken-L Ration-$9,000,000), Carnation (Friskies-$4.2 million), and Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Alpo-$4,000,000). Ten years ago, the entire industry spent only $21.2 million on advertising...
Under the sponsorship of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker service organization, Mendelsohn visited Quaker projects and sought to assess the possibility of a peaceful solution to the Vietnamese conflict through conversations with Vietnamese civilians. In Cambodia he met with a high representative of the National Liberation Front...
...visited the hospital at Quang Ngai and went through it in some detail with a doctor working with the Quaker unit. There was a standard medical ward which perhaps had an increase in the standard diseases of the area, malaria, diphtheria, cholera, plague had broken out in the region. And the other things that you are wont to find in this part of the world. But when we went beyond the medical ward into the severe injury ward, you saw the full horror of the war itself...