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...first it appeared to be nothing but a new French fad-redolent of sex, sidewalk cafes, tight blue jeans and Communism. But on examination it seems that all kinds of respectable thinkers are existentialists, and that France's Atheist Jean-Paul Sartre represents merely a quasi-Communist splinter group in a movement that grew out of the thoughts of the great 19th century Danish religious thinker, Sören Kierkegaard. What is a modern-day existentialist? One who asks the great questions-"Who am I?" "Why am I here?"-and finds no answer. Can a Christian be an existentialist...
Team of Ministers. Meanwhile, the Liberals looked stronger than at any time since 1936 when Duplessis, campaigning as a reformer against graft, ousted them from power. Quebec's splinter parties joined in an anti-Duplessis coalition, and the strong federal Liberal organization, dropping its hands-off policy toward provincial affairs, sent a team of Ottawa Cabinet ministers to Quebec to campaign...
With the scars of their 1948 splinter wounds still throbbing painfully, Southern Democrats demonstrated last week that another full-scale revolt against the party's Northern leadership is one of the farthest things from their minds in 1956 -civil rights...
...bone-bred Socialist that he was, was nonetheless outraged by the alliance which Socialist Party Leader Pietro Nenni had just made with the Communists. Sadly, Matteotti charged Nenni with spreading "fear and terrorism" in the party. Then, amidst cries of "degenerate son," he stalked out to help organize a splinter group, which eventually became the anti-Communist Social Democratic Party...
...same time, the small, one-product companies that once ruled the woods are yielding to corporate Paul Bunyans. To make the most of every shaving and splinter, lumber companies are branching into paper and pulp production; paper companies are pushing into lumber manufacture. Georgia-Pacific Corp., No. 2 plywood producer (after U.S. Plywood), recently broke ground for a $20 million pulp and paper mill at Toledo, Ore. Georgia-Pacific President Owen Cheatham, who has increased the company's timber reserves and cutting rights 1,000% since 1953, explained: "We aim to parlay the $900,000 worth of wood chips...