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...year continued, the University seemed determined to impress the seniors with the blunt facts of change. Gore Hall, the College library since 1841, was torn down, and construction on the new Widener Library was begun. The College was in relative chaos as books were switched to at least ten temporary locations. Lowell also announced the institution of the University Press, to be housed in the bottom of University Hall. The Administration revealed that $4 million was being spent on construction...
That Word Liberty. Each Pope, as he receives the triple tiara at his coronation, is reminded: "Thou art the father of princes and of kings, Pontiff of the whole world." Far more than shrewd, blunt Pius XI, or ascetic, aristocratic Pius XII, Pope John did seem like a universal father, and his teaching voice reached not only 558 million Roman Catholics but all men. Two of his encyclicals may rank as classics, and they caught the imagination of many outside John's church. In Mater et Magistra (1961), he brought up to date the tradition of Catholic social teaching...
...John F. Kennedy's main contribution to business confidence has been his new attitude toward business. After his blunt attack on the steel industry last year, he has taken pains to avoid further offense, and pleased businessmen by his restraint in not interfering with the new price rise by steel in April. The businessman's new attitude toward the President is summed up by Monroe Jackson Rathbone. 63, a chemical engineer who followed his father into a job at Standard Oil (New Jersey) and rose to become president of the $10 billion-a-year company. "President Kennedy...
These new Christian cells meet almost never on Sunday and rarely in church. In Chicago's Loop, there are three groups of business executives who meet monthly for lunch, prayer, and blunt, secret discussions of how Christian ethics apply to their office lives. Both the Senate and House of Representatives have groups of Congressmen who meet once a week for a prayer breakfast; so has Texas' House of Representatives. The thousands who belong to the cells of the Roman Catholic Christian Family Movement meet weekly for their discussions and Bible study in one another's houses...
...slogans Kerciu quotes are blunt. "A good nigger is a dead nigger," one reads. Beside it is printed: "WOULD YOU WANT YOUR SISTER TO MARRY ONE." Beneath this appears: "Impeach JFK," "Back Ross," and Yankee go home." Near the slogans are the names of the Segregationist Citizens Council, and the Patriotic Youth of America...