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...effect cognizance as self by other selves. The Straus Trophy is the ethical whole, the actualization of athletic freedom as a necessary Idea in-and-for-itself. It is, then, the necessary course of the Idea through the Becoming of athletics that constitutes the "will-be" of a "reckoning." The Idea considered as Will wills in-and-of-itself that there will be a "reckoning." It is, thus, with the Weitgeist that the thief will have to reckon, not with me. David Ames...
...slices a depressing day out of a set of static and pointless lives, showing a lost people who imitate the language of Negroes as if in aspiration to belong to a higher-echelon minority. They lie around in their grimy pads listening to westerns on TV with lines like "reckon that'll teach them moonfaced Indians to have more respect for a white man." Or they drive to a rubbly hilltop and hold war dances with jugs of wine, the galactic lights of the city spread below...
...item in the U.S. food bill (about 25? out of every dollar), one beneficiary of the current situation is the U.S. housewife. Retail beef prices slipped 2% to an average 81? per Ib. last year, and the dip is expected to continue for a while. But Government experts also reckon that the cattlemen's troubles are only temporary. The beef business historically runs in cycles; when prices hold low, cattlemen sooner or later have to thin their herds, marginal operators drop out-and prices begin to recover. Besides, as the Agriculture Department made a point of noting last week...
...land mass smaller than Texas', an economy that is booming but still no match for West Germany's, and a nuclear device too cumbersome to get airborne, France has, by the judicious use of diplomacy in the classic sense, become a power that the world must reckon with...
...home, Kenyatta must reckon with a population that is soaring at an annual rate of 3.4%, and though the government intends within five years to settle 50,000 African families on a million acres in the "White Highlands" bought from European settlers with $80 million supplied by Britain, by that time an additional 100,000 families will be clamoring for land. Kenya's huge labor surplus must idly await the slow development of industry, and there is a great lack of trained professionals to replace the departing whites. For example, Kenya has 750 doctors but needs at least...