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...Franklin Clark Fry, D.LET., president of the Lutheran Church in America. His religious philosophy is expressed in his own words. "America needs a vertebrate religion. It needs a spine up the back which will hold the body together...
...Elizabeth Allen takes her fame as stoically as she has taken the pain that has been her lifelong lot. One of 17 children of an Irish mother and a German immigrant tailor, she was born in North London with a double curvature of the spine and a clubfoot, got her nickname when, as a child, she insisted she was as much a queen as Elizabeth I. She became an atheist after her mother told her that her afflictions were brought about by a wrathful God who visited the sins of the fathers on the sons. In later life, she developed...
...achieved economic stability first by reforming the agricultural base, which more often than not is a millstone around the neck of a developing nation. Because of the spine-like ridge of mountains that runs up the middle of Taiwan, only 3,000 of the island's 13,800 square miles are arable; for centuries, that land was held by landlords and worked by tenant farmers. The Nationalist government of Chiang Kaishek, under a land-reform program, distributed small plots to the tenants-and encouraged landlords to invest their settlement money in industry. Now, with farmers keeping 80% of their...
Stiffened Spine. Yet today is yesterday's tomorrow, and many of yesterday's fond hopes are still hopes. For all the hallelujahs, Brazil today-like all of its neighbors in Latin America-is faced with staggering problems that cannot be put off much longer. Brazil has South America's highest child-mortality rate (11.2%), its third highest illiteracy rate (50%), its third lowest per-capita income ($285), and one of its most ruinous rates of inflation (41%). About 1% of Brazilian landowners control 47% of the farm land. Side by side with a wealthy aristocracy dwell filth...
...time in applying them after he took office in the still unfinished and boldly modern capital of Brasilia last month. A lifetime professional soldier who headed Brazil's armed forces until he resigned to run for President, Costa is a pragmatic man whose army background has stiffened his spine and his resolve-and made him less dreamy than some of his predecessors. In a meeting with his Cabinet the day after his inauguration, he said: "Brazilian society is profoundly split. This cleavage is growing and deepening so much that all of us must work urgently to remedy...