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Amid all his other problems, Charlie Wilson chose last week to surpass himself in the art of getting into needless trouble over an essentially trivial matter. From the Defense Secretary's office came an order requiring military officers with Washington desk jobs to wear civilian clothes to work. Ignoring officers' complaints that they would have to spend substantial sums of their own money for such clothes, Wilson airily explained to newsmen: "We don't think at the seat of Government it is a good thing to put on the military...
...real barriers to increases in US-Soviet trade far surpass licensing requirements. The "strategic" classification itself is so stringent as to prohibit exportation of anything Russia seeks to import. In addition to keeping out of the USSR anything helpful to Soviet military potential, export controls also ban commodities which could in any long-run, remote way be useful to Red industrial development. Naturally Russia has little yearning for baby bibs and dentures, so there are declared non-strategic. With supply and demand stubbornly entrenched back to back, US-USSR trade had consequently dwindled to practically nothing. An unencouraging US official...
...years he lectured to followers, published a monthly magazine called Seisho-no-Kenkyu (Study of the Bible). "I dislike ecclesiastics more than anything else in this world." he wrote. "Believers believe in God; ecclesiastics try to control believers. Believers are men of faith; ecclesiastics are politicians . . . None surpass the prophets in serving God and disliking ecclesiastics." At his death in 1930, Uchimura had a huge and devoted following, but he stipulated in his will that neither his Bible class nor his magazine should be continued. Mukyokai, he insisted, had to avoid institutionalism of all kinds...
...slowly broadened the gap. A year and a half ago, 53% of decided voters were for him. In his latest poll, taken just before Ike announced his availability, Gallup found 66% of decided voters for Ike, 34% for Adlai. Concluded Gallup: "In an election today Eisenhower would likely surpass the greatest landslide vote in recent U.S. political history, racked up by Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...always with him. A Jew without the Torah is obsolete. The Torah is not the wisdom but the destiny of Israel; not our literature but our essence." ¶ "A Jew is asked to take a leap of action rather than a leap of thought. He is asked to surpass his needs, to do more than he understands in order to under stand more than he does. In carrying out the word of the Torah he is ushered into the presence of spiritual meaning. Through the ecstasy of deeds he learns to be certain of the hereness of God. Right living...