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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years a small band of Doukhobors in Hilliers, on Vancouver Island, have struggled to establish a "Spiritual Community of Christ." It was started by Michael ("The Archangel") Verigin, who decided that other "Douks" were losing sight of original Doukhobor tenets and becoming worldly and materialistic. Unlike other British Columbia Doukhobors, the new community stressed the old precepts of non-violence and communal sharing of all property, including husbands & wives. Its ruling elders decreed that until the colony was economically self-sufficient, no children should be born to any member...
When Ben Hogan and his U.S. Ryder Cup golfers came ashore from the Queen Elizabeth at Southampton, meat-rationed Britons swallowed hard at the sight of the team's 600 steaks, plus bacon and hams, which went through customs duty free...
From $1.90 in early August the price soared to $3.93 on Sept. i, then slipped off to $2.69. Last week it bounced back up under brisk bidding to $3.25. Nor was the end of the boom in sight. Onions usually start coming into the market for delivery n November. But if the price is rising, and the crop short, many a farmer will probably hold out his onions and the short sellers scurry to cover their sales. Commented a trader happily: "That's when prices will really begin...
...merely an overall model. He really looks for an understanding of the actual mechanisms whereby the organic, biological machine operates. An even partially successful model may be enormously helpful in furthering this quest, in a particular case; but its character as an analogical crutch must not be lost sight...
...three-day week-end session packed in a luncheon featuring President Conant, a meeting of the officers of the AHC, a tour of San Francisco, a meeting of the Business School Alumni, a symposium on America's economic future, and a special combination sight-seeing and thirst-slaking excursion through the wine-rich Napa Valley...