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...life. Of her three vows-poverty, chastity, obedience-she can keep two without much difficulty, but the third is her undoing. She cannot manage to keep the silence that is required of all novices; she cannot bear to stop whatever she is doing when the bell of command is rung; she cannot persuade her thoughts from memories and objects, "the vanity of this world." Her nature rebels because her will insists on nothing less than saintly perfection; she cannot accept her human imperfection. She makes her sacrifice not with love but with pride, not for God's sake...
With a $10,000, two-unit house in mind and $2,500 in pocket, a budding operator can borrow $7,500 and mount the first rung of the realty ladder. Two years later, according to Nickerson, the operator should have $5,800 in hand and be able to borrow $17,400 for a four-unit dwelling. By virtually geometrical progression, this mounts to $1,187,195 in 20 years. Arguing from the low foreclosure rate, Nickerson claims that an average man with "average luck" has a 400-to-1 chance of succeeding in real estate. By contrast, "Fifty percent...
William Birrell Franlce, 65, top-rung accountant and retired New York businessman (onetime chairman of General Shale Products Corp. and plumbing-making John Simmons Co.), moved up from Navy Under Secretary to Secretary...
Lieut. Gray: The bare, cold, prophetic words of Auden-"We must love one another or die"-have rung in my mind on several of these frigid, sleepless nights of late...
...urge among swarming lower-class families to put at least one member on the bottom rung of the new middle class stirs all across Mexico. In Portales, a section of Mexico City, one such family lives over the garage behind a big house. The father is caretaker for his landlord. The Indian mother and all the family-except one-spend their days squatting on a curbstone around an open charcoal brazier, making and selling tacos (tortillas rolled around fillings of beans, meat or chicken). The exception is a teen-age daughter, who wears nylons and goes to a commercial school...