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...hails from Pennsylvania Dutch country, said he had talked about the liberal absence with his delegations, and many agreed that "we are seeing the fruits of the McGovern push in 1972. The party has realized that you'd better open up or you don't exist." Into that vacuum of battles won stepped Carter, and like many liberals of Hay's nature, he says, "Carter...
...moral vacuum today is simply due to the failure of Americans to think like Americans. They have stopped growing spiritually and intellectually; they no longer have any holy or scholarly desires; they have lost the ability to think clearly; and consequently America is losing its greatness. What is needed is a renaissance of men and women who want to think with the constructive thinkers of the past, who relish intellectual clarity and who want to practice the two concepts that have helped to make all great civilizations, contemplation and discipline. Thus, The John Birch Society seeks to recruit Americans...
...pioneering vacuum-tube computer built by RCA in 1953 occupied an area the size of a football field and required 300 tons of air-conditioning equipment to keep it operating. But the invention of the transistor and integrated circuits did away with the tube and made such electronic leviathans obsolete. In 1968 William Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard, looked at his firm's typewriter-size desktop calculator and asked his engineers to make him one that would fit in his shirt pocket. H.P. Technology Chief David Cochran and his colleagues succeeded, and today several firms make pocket calculators...
...vacuum left by Anglican apathy has already attracted a number of new movements. First came "New Side" Presbyterians, preaching the "new birth," a life-changing experience of salvation. Then the Baptists, with a similar message. Now come the Methodists -not a new denomination at this point but an order of Anglican laymen who preach the revivalist Gospel and establish prayer cells. Rankin, who arrived from England in 1773, is their current American leader. Although some see them as "a church within a church," the Methodists profess religious loyalty to the Church of England. In fact, one hot-head was ejected...
...reverberations of a European cataclysm: The Great War. While a massacre by the Head of State provokes brief, tongue-clucking scandal in the French press, the tales of Hun atrocities shock Latin Americans who believed, above all, in the civilization of Europe. And the ideology that fills the moral vacuum left by the collapse of the old cultural value is Marxism...