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...Beset by major problems of world and domestic policy, President Kennedy has had little time for plain old public politicking. Last week, for the first time since his election, he hit the hustings-and his performance plainly needed some polishing...
...Augustine, for one, consigned them to the eternal flames of hell, though the thought distressed him. "I am, believe me, beset by no small difficulties," he wrote, "and I am quite at a loss what to answer. Though I cannot define the nature of their damnation, yet I do not dare to say that it would have been better for them not to exist than to exist as they now are." Martin Luther agreed with Augustine. John Calvin sidestepped the issue by stressing predestination; if an infant was elected for salvation, Calvin held, lack of baptism could not keep...
Reading about all these fantastic intricacies is rather fascinating, and makes the literature of a couple of cartridges available at the moment both have easily understood discussions in their promotional material of some of these incredibly complicated problems that beset the cartridge maker. GRADO'S literature (describing their particularly sweet sounding new Laboratory cartridge--$49.50) is very interesting, as is AUDIO DYNAMICS' (explaining the starting ADC-1--also $49.50--which is the first cartridge to successfully track under 1 gram and still give exceptional sound...
...evidence that criticism of the Kennedy Administration is widespread, but he did not hesitate to explain why such criticism should exist. The President's trouble, wrote Alsop, is that he gets too much advice: "With the most terrible choices being daily thrust upon him, Kennedy is daily beset by almost every possible viewpoint. As chief foreign-policymaker, he is the center of an immense, confusing, distracting but continuous churning. This is the true infirmity...
...Gate Park; last year in South America he distributed 1,500,000 rosaries to the poor. Says he: "The rosary has accomplished many great wonders in the world. When recited in the family each day, it is the most powerful weapon in our armory today against the evils that beset...