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Says Toynbee: Christians must winnow the nonessential chaff (mostly theology) from the wheat of their tradition, must abandon the "chosen people" claim to the uniqueness of their Saviour and their revelation. They must learn to regard all the higher religions as revelations of God. "The spirit of the Indian religions, blowing where it listeth, may perhaps help to winnow a traditional Pharisaism out of Moslem, Christian and Jewish hearts. But the help that God gives is given by Him to those who help themselves; and the spiritual struggle in the more exclusive-minded Judaic half of the world to cure...
...Leverone soon found that if vend ing-machine operators had been crooked, the customers were worse. In its first year Leverone's company took in $30,000 worth of slugs. Undaunted, Leverone and his engineers installed magnets to winnow out iron slugs, developed a three-fingered scanning device to reject slugs with holes in them. To reject more sophisticated slugs, he inserted a small anvil in his machines just below the coin slot; coins that were either too hard or too soft bounced off the anvil into slots leading to the coin-return chute. When cheaters dis covered slugs...
What has been art's course in the decade since World War II? Future historians may be able to chart it neatly. Contemporaries cannot, for most art of any age is chaff which only the winds of time winnow away. But by the same token, the living can see more of today's art, good and bad. than future historians ever will. Last week the work of close to a thousand postwar artists was on view in New York City alone. The spring downpour of big survey exhibitions offered a new and broad perspective of contemporary...
...that the wind sets up a "howling, skin-blasting roar." Along with such recherche lore. Author Murchie offers straightforward tips on air navigation to those who may feel the need of them. At his infrequent but embarrassing worst, he plays the Whitman-cum-Thomas Wolfe of the skyways: "I winnow the meager facts, seeking to construct truth only from the clean kernels. I am a human lodestone-the homing pigeon of mankind." The Book-of-the-Month Club judges have un-cooped him for December...
...sale to private industry have proved far more popular than anyone expected. The Government last week closed the bidding for 27 wartime plants after getting a total of 74 bids from 34 companies, including most of the U.S. oil, chemical and rubber giants. A special three-man commission will winnow the bids through secret negotiations, announce its choices to Congress...