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With the rise of the 35-hour week and four-week vacations, millionaires also detect tempting prospects in recreation. Among them: marinas and vacation homes. The growth of leisure and the youth market will also strengthen businesses involved with education, including secretarial schools and accounting schools. Oakland Lawyer Michael Rafton tapped that market: In 1960 he put up $31,000 to buy a struggling company that had been making big cargo boxes, switched it into the manufacture of portable classrooms, and last year sold out at a huge profit. The demand for time-saving conveniences can be turned into wealth...
...director of the American Humanist Association, Rafton urged that men renounce their belief in a God whose existence cannot be proven and the expectation of a happily-eve-after life in heaven...
Instead, he advocated acceptance of the humanist belief that man can improve society through his own efforts. The greatest obstacle to progress, Rafton claimed, is man's underestimation of his intellectual and moral powers...
Humanists are experimentalists, Rafton pointed out. Freed from an "ox-cart religion in a jot ago," They "don't have to stick with a dogma," he said...
...Rafton, the author of What Can We Believe? billed his talk "Life Without God--An introduction to Humanism...