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Would that we had a man of his drive to protest our own gross and grievous tax injustices. No less than in France, we need a leader to spearhead concerted revolt against the onerous, noxious, outrageous tax burden imposed...
...crucial time. A wave of reform was sweeping the Dominican monasteries of Italy; revived humanism, based on study of recently rediscovered classic manuscripts, was threatening the church with a new kind of paganism. The new convent of San Domenico, then less than two years in existence, was a spearhead of the reformed order of Dominican Observants. Its leader, the eloquent Fra Dominici, raised up against the New Learning the stern teachings of the church fathers: "Christ is our only guide to happiness . . . our father, our leader, our light, our food, our redemption, our way, our truth, our life." Fra Dominici...
...Federation of Malaya as in the British island colony of Singapore at the southern tip of the Malayan peninsula. Here, with considerable success, the Communists have dropped terrorism for a policy of infiltration in the predominantly Chinese population (Singapore has 900,000 Chinese to 20,000 Europeans). The Communist spearhead in Singapore is the Chinese student movement, among whom are an estimated 20.000 fanatical Communists...
Died. Frank T. Tobey, 64, mayor of Memphis since 1953, spearhead of the campaign in the South against the proposed Dixon-Yates power project; of coronary thrombosis; in Memphis...
...American Go Home" attitude represents a sharp reversal of Asian thinking since the early postwar years. Asian populations have become obsessed with the idea that foreign businessmen are the spearhead troops of spreading Western empires-as had often been true in the past. Furthermore. Asians see no reason why foreigners should run the businesses and make the profits; they want to make the money themselves, forgetting that they often have neither the know-how nor the capital to operate the businesses...