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...billion. Six days after the election, in which the Conservatives remained in power, but as a minority government. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker suddenly put on the country's most stringent austerity since 1947. Canadian Historian Bruce Hutchison mourned that Canada was "brought to the rim of ruin . . . and became a mendicant...
...fear thought," says Bertrand Russell, "as they fear nothing else on earth-more than ruin, more even than death." But in every age since the pyramid builders', there have been a few exceptional men who would willingly risk death for the enjoyment of thinking. Whether Socrates had as high an I.Q. as Shakespeare or Descartes, Schweitzer or Einstein, will never be known. What is certain is that all such men used their brains as energetically as they knew how. Today, man may have no greater brain capacity than the ancients, but he has revolutionary ideas about how to exploit...
...Rule or Ruin." The delegates rallied in shoulder-to-shoulder solidarity around Farm Bureau President Charles B. Shuman. In his opening speech Shuman put the pitchfork to present agricultural programs. The Agriculture Department, he said, seems "determined to either rule or ruin American agriculture." He called the costly price-support system a ''morass into which we have floundered." He warned farmers that a "vast bureaucracy of tens of thousands of political payrollers is around our neck." Then, switching to a proverb he never heard in his own Illinois. Shuman said: "Our situation in agriculture brings to mind...
Albert J. Meyer, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, last night gave a favorable account of Israel's economic growth since 1948. Yet he predicted that, under her present economic system, she is headed for financial ruin...
Meyer said that Israel's foreign economic problems would ultimately result in ruin. He listed soon-to-be-discontinued German reparations, decreasing American aid, the Arab economic boycott, and increasing competition from the Common Market as virtually insurmountable difficulties...