Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japanese schoolteacher named Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, who blended the theology of a militant 13th century Buddhist monk named Nichiren with a philosophy of this-worldly benefit that stressed personal success. The sect now claims a membership of at least 16 million in Japan, and its Clean Government Party is the third largest political group within the Diet. In the U.S., Soka Gakkai at first concentrated on winning converts among Japanese-Americans or G.I.s who had married Japanese girls. About 1967, because the movement had virtually exhausted the available Japanese in the country, its focus shifted to whites and Negroes...
...deeper understanding of the faith. "Your desires get higher and higher," says Sandi Mytinger, 25, "and your life gets higher and higher." Ultimately, the goal of Soka Gakkai is the establishment of an earthly kingdom come -an era of world peace that will be achieved when at least one-third of mankind adopts the sect's version of true Buddhism. The movement clearly has a long...
...response to Washington's battle against inflation, the cost of borrowing from U.S. banks last week climbed to a historic high. For the third time in six weeks, major banks raised their prime rate, the interest that they charge their best corporate customers for loans. The latest increase, from 6¾% to 7%, is in tended to help curb the nation's overexuberant economy by making credit so costly that businessmen will borrow and spend less. Because they operate in directly, such restraints at best take effect only after a time lag of weeks or months. The immediate...
...Maranzano, who in the 1920s filled a room with books about Julius Caesar, no single boss has ever really taken over-with the possible exception of Charles ("Lucky") Luciano. The Cosa Nostra now operates through 25 to 30 "families," totaling about 5,000 members. Five families and about one-third of the total troops are based in New York City, where Valachi grew up as the son of a hard-drinking pushcart peddler in East Harlem...
Sophomore center Joe Cavanagh, shut out by the Indians for two periods, broke a 3-3 deadlock at 12:04 in the third period with a spectacular unassisted goal on a length of the ice rush...