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...Dead as a Hammer." In fact, the National Committee has no power to read a state out of the party. Even if it did, the G.O.P. is in no condition to afford another internecine conflict. National Chairman Ray Bliss, who was put into office to promote unity, is as conscious of the racial problem as the liberals, and has been quietly attempting to solve it. Bliss pushed for the recent appointment of Clarke Reed, a relatively moderate Mississippian, to replace racist Wirt Yerger as state party chairman. "The race issue," Reed is telling G.O.P. candidates, "is dead as a hammer...
...rapidity that shocks the rest of the world. There is the ten-city tour of Europe in two weeks, the stand-up lunch, the precooked frozen dinner, the disposable dress, the phone call instead of a letter, the formal invitation sent by telegram. There is even, for some, instant bliss through LSD. The U.S. is running an economic fever trying to end poverty and pollution, put a man on the moon and end the war in Viet Nam all at once. Is this bad? Social Ethics Professor Roger L. Shinn of Union Theological Seminary thinks that it "makes us unfortunately...
...living things responds mysteriously to the sound of wind in the reeds. At the gentle pleasing of a flute, certain crabs glide out of their caves and sit listening under water. Mosquitoes of some breeds collect on people playing flutes. Lions fly into panic, dogs sink into bliss-though only when the flute is played in the key of C minor. In China, the musk deer is hunted with a Judas flute, which the deer meekly follows to its doom...
Editors of the magazine will go to Washington during spring vacation to ask Ray Bliss, chairman of the National Republican Committee, for money. They are also asking prominent Republicans for financial support...
...Washington the editors will show Bliss letters praising their October issue, which they received from Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen (III.) and former Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy...