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Refuge & Umbrella. Religions, said Scientist Huxley, are "organs of psychosocial man, concerned with human destiny and with experiences of sacredness and transcendence." They are "organizations of human thought" for coping with the difficult world, serving as a refuge from loneliness or an "umbrella of divine authority" against the responsibility of personal decisions. But "religion is not necessarily a good thing. It was not a good thing when the Hindu I read about this spring killed his son as a religious sacrifice. It is not a good thing that religious pressure has made it illegal to teach evolution in Tennessee, because...
Facts & Faith. By contrast, the new religion, said Sir Julian, "could be a good thing. It will believe in knowledge. It will be able to take advantage of the vast amount of new knowledge produced by the knowledge explosion of the last few centuries in constructing what we may call its theology-the framework of facts and ideas which provide it with intellectual support...
...estimated $60 million this year. But Mortimer is still not satisfied with some of his products, notably the Gourmet line, intends to make some changes. Says he: "At one of these business things I go to, the dowager wife of some fancy businessman sitting next to me said, 'Oh, Mr. Mortimer, your gourmet foods are wonderful. We stock the yacht with them.' And I thought to myself, 'Yeah, that's what's wrong with that business-not enough yachts...
...radical new internal combustion engine billed as the greatest advance since the diesel. It has no pistons or valves, only two moving parts; there is a carburetor to mix air and gasoline, a single spark plug, a rotor that drives the crankshaft. Beyond that. Hurley refused details. CW, he said, had developed the engine in conjunction with West Germany's NSU Werke, makers of autos and motorcycles, and had exclusive North American rights. In the works, said Hurley, was a whole string of models from...
...Exchange Commission had some questions to ask Curtiss-Wright and its managers. The exchange began investigating to see if Chairman Hurley or any other officer had bought or sold C-W stock recently. SEC Regional Administrator Paul Windels Jr. questioned Hurley about the price movements of the stock. Said Windels: "We are investigating to see if this sequence of corporation actions was done deliberately to have an effect on the market...