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...closest to conversion: "Hatred indicates interest." The pattern of instruction is always the same. Sheen starts with reason, firmly discouraging all mysticism or merely emotional belief. When people tell him they believe in God, he wants to know why, and won't let them off the hook till they can recite the logical proofs for God's existence. These early lessons on reason prove the most difficult; the going gets easier, rather than rougher, when Sheen reaches matters of faith...
...supposed to preach one Sunday at a Washington church had to leave town because of illness in the family, and asked Sheen to substitute for him. Fearing that the church's pastor would think he was too young, Sheen did not present himself at the rectory till five minutes before Mass was supposed to start. The pastor said gruffly: "Get over to the church. The other altar boys are dressed already." But Sheen made a hit: "They asked me back the next week," he says...
...Beam. A pictorial computer for instrument flying is ready for production by Arma Corp., subsidiary of American Bosch Corp. Up till now, a pilot flying blind has had to figure out his position from radio data. The new, 37-lb. device picks up the data, computes it automatically and continuously plots a plane's exact position on a 10-in. luminous screen...
...grandfather must have been wrong when he laid down his deathbed formula for dealing with the whites: "Live with your head in the lion's mouth . . . Overcome 'em with yesses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open." But in his junior year, the visiting white philanthropist whose car he is driving asks to be taken off the usual showplace rounds. They spend part of the day at the shack of a Negro who has made his own daughter pregnant, wind...
Perhaps most popular among its assets is Eliot's fine grille in the basement of I-entry where the hungry student can procure almost anything to eat from 5 p.m. till midnight. The house also boasts a chapel, a fine library, the best House darkroom, a projected are studio, ping-pong and pool tables, and squash courts, as well as the smallest and worst junior common room of all the Houses...