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...Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi Theater, where he loudly applauded U.S. Basso Jerome Hines. Afterward Khrushchev jovially raised a glass as his pal First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan offered toasts in champagne to culture and, smiling at the singer's pretty wife, to American women. "May God bless you," responded Basso Hines, still decked out in the Czarist garb he wore for his role...
...befits a Baptist minister, Martin Luther King has often taken as his text the words from the Sermon on the Mount: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." But in the minds of Dr. King and the Southern Negro these words have become more than ethical commands; they are the core of a philosophy of nonviolent protest which has enabled the Negro to fight for dignity and the rights of first-class citizenship with a creative power and grace...
...last time a Pope ventured onto a train was in 1863, when Pius IX rode a few bumpy miles southeast of Rome to bless a new railway line. But Pope John XXIII, 80, is no stay-at-home. Leaving the seldom used Vatican station at daybreak in the Italian government's presidential railroad car, he made a 400-mile whistle stop journey to Loreto and Assisi to pray for the success of the Second Vatican Council, convening in Rome this week. From the coach's window, he blessed huge crowds along the line and gave signs that...
...bless you for the Everett Dirksen story [Sept...
...every chapter with a prayer. The one that closes the chapter about her garden party (at which the bishop drank a triple julep and she danced with some little colored boys) goes like this: "Oh ye Sun and Moon, oh ye beans and roses, oh ye jigs and juleps. Bless ye the Lord. Praise Him and Magnify Him Forever. Amen...