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Backers of Adlai Stevenson were not too grieved, because Stevenson has begged to be left out of the Oregon primary-although some saw Morse's entry as a way to cut the influence of Stevenson's ardent backer and Morse's archenemy, Fellow Senator Richard Neuberger. Backers of Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy were hurt some, but Teamster-backed Wayne Morse already has done nearly as much damage to Kennedy's chances as possible by attacking him up and down the state for his part in framing the Landrum-Griffin labor law. Most grieved were the friends...
Back from 17 days of traveling, talking and trenchering through Russia, a five-man delegation representing the World Council of Churches last week reported that, despite repression, religion in the U.S.S.R. is remarkably "rich and intensive," and that Russian Christians have an "ardent desire" to make contact with their fellow Christians in the West...
...power-bent use of it, Rostow said, threaten the U.S. on half a dozen fronts, ranging from brush-fire wars to all-out attack, political penetration of underdeveloped areas and "diplomatic blackmail." Worst of all, said Rostow, Russia is creating among neutrals the "psychological image of an ardent competitor closing fast on a front runner who prefers to go down in style rather than make the effort to maintain his status...
Needled Suggestion. At a San Francisco reception for Republican leaders, ardent Nixon supporters all, Rocky finally permitted himself to lose some of his smiling composure and got in some telling licks. Margaret Leete, president of the Republican Women's Federation, needled him with a suggestion: "You've always been first man, but now you should be second man." Flushing, Rocky shot back: "But you don't know me." When a debate on the merits of being Nixon's Vice President for eight years persisted, Rockefeller turned on his tormentors and snapped: "Don't go selecting...
...started out as a New York Herald Tribune Wall Street reporter in 1933. Son of a Stroudsburg (Pa.) schoolteacher, Cub Kintner, a lean, spectacled Hall-of-Ivy type at the time, at first "didn't even know where Wall Street was." But he learned quickly. Though an ardent New Dealer and F.D.R. favorite, able Newsman Kintner developed and retained a high regard for big "business. For five years in Washington, he wrote a column, "The Capital Parade," in partnership with doom-crying Columnist Joseph Alsop ("Joe tended to destroy the world every time I was out of town"). After...