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...seems fairly clear," Ross concluded, "that among the matters youth are most interested in, and concerned about, religion per se is seldom included. The kind of thing young people think about most is success in terms of job, family living and economic security . . . Religion has almost ceased to provide a significant or lofty idea which gives life purpose and direction...
Phillips explained that his membership in the Communist Party does not impair his objective. Early in 1949 he was fired form the University of Washington for membership in the Communist Party per se. Phillips reviewed the details of his dismissal...
...Señora Maria Unzue de Alvear was one of the few women listed in Argentina's Who's Who. A plump, little old lady who lived out her declining years in piety and good works, she gave an estimated 1,000,000 pesos ($112,000) a year to charity. She could well afford it; her family, which had given Argentina one of its most distinguished Presidents (Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, 1922-28), owned a good million acres of rich grazing land...
...evening, passing up a Club Unión reception, the President took in the dancing in the Parque Central. As he sat on a park bench watching the capital's famously handsome señoritas walk by arm in arm, some drunks raised a cheer for the government's bitterest enemy, exiled ex-President Rafael Calderón Guardia. Ulate forbade their arrest. "Let them viva whom they wish," he said...
...police station he identified himself as an elementary-school teacher, 45 years old. He had thought only to bring home a tiny chip of the mounting for his family to see. When no one appeared to press charges against him, he was released. "Señor," said a wondering desk sergeant, "you would have risked less by jumping off the top of the cathedral...