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...thousand, banner-waving church members gathered in Washington last week to put heat to the controversy about whether the U.S. should send an ambassador to the Vatican. They were on a "pilgrimage" sponsored by the American Council of Christian Churches,* a clamorous, fundamentalist organization representing 15 denominations, mostly independent churches which have broken with other Protestant groups...
...just are not enough Republicans in the U.S. to elect a President without additional support. If every Republican voted for the Republican candidate, according to a recent vote analysis, he would only get 31% of the vote. Therefore we must have a candidate who not only will carry our banner but will also appeal to the great strength of the independent voters and also to the Democrats who are sick & tired of the present national Administration ... If Dwight Eisenhower's extraordinary hold on the American people were solely due to the fact that he has a warm personality...
...labor program. Polish mines have been reinforced by convicts, military conscripts, students who fail their examinations and members of the SP (Service to Poland) youth organization. Czechoslovakia drafted 77,500 minor bureaucrats into the pits in one sweeping purge. The Communists get coal by a combination of threats, rewards ("Banner of Labor" decorations), bonuses, extra food, and discipline...
...Canadians needed statistics to remind them that 1951 was a banner year. Evidence of the boom ran clear across the country, from the $9 million mining development to get more iron ore from under the Atlantic off Newfoundland, to the $27 million pulp mill built by Columbia Cellulose Co. (an affiliate of Celanese Corp. of America) near Prince Rupert in the Pacific Northwest. Other developments...
Orson Welles, who has had his share of curtain boos and offstage hisses, found that his mere presence in an audience could be hooted too. When he arrived at Dublin's Gate Theater to see a play, he was greeted at the theater door by a banner-waving picket line whose signs read "Not wanted, Orson Welles, Stalin's star . . . Dublin rejects Communistic front star . . ." But inside, Welles got cheers when he said: "I am not a Communist. I never was a Communist. I came here to see a play." He also got a character reference of sorts...