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...July 4, in the town of Benson, Ariz, (pop. 2,600), all the members of the sect called Full Gospel, Inc. suddenly vanished...
Their neighbors were astonished; they had seemed such normal folk when they settled in Benson, mostly during the past six months, and built their attractive houses-about 30 of them-and their neat stucco church. But now the houses were shut and silent in the summer sun, even the dogs and cats were gone, and their automobiles-mostly new station wagons -stood in the driveways...
...Perhaps he could carry on the party policies-the policies of Nixon and Benson and Dirksen and Goldwater. But this nation cannot afford such a luxury. Perhaps we could afford a Coolidge following Harding. And perhaps we could afford a Pierce following Fillmore. But after Buchanan this nation needed Lincoln; after Taft we needed a Wilson; and after Hoover we needed Franklin Roosevelt." Without saying where this put him, Kennedy riffled back again through history for Nixon's benefit. "The Republican nominee, of course, is a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party...
...years past, there have been several members of a family on the cover, e.g., three sons of George V of Great Britain (Aug. 8. 1927); four Marx brothers-Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo (Aug. 15, 1932); and three of Edsel Ford's sons. Benson, William and Henry II (May 18, 1953). There have been couples, including Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Oct. 26, 1931; Jan. 3, 1938), Ambassador to Russia and Mrs. Joseph Davies (March 15, 1937) and Stage Luminaries Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (Nov. 8. 1937). But never before has TIME'S cover been...
...This," said he, "is the toughest and biggest domestic problem confronting America today . . . Beating Secretary Benson around the head or damning the Democratic Congress will not help the farmer." In his specific proposals he then: ¶ Blamed the "majority" in Congress for blocking Administration efforts to modernize farm programs. ¶ Acknowledged that the Government helped get the farmer into trouble, should share the cost for getting him out.¶ Hinted that the parity price program is obsolete-"at its best it treats the symptoms and not the cause"-but postponed discussion of the problem of parity "since...