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...Smith, Massachusetts' Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy well knew that the issue of religion might hurt him in 1960 as it hurt "the Happy Warrior" in 1928. Consequently, out of a shrewd sense of political necessity, Candidate Kennedy provoked discussion of his Catholicism months ago, got accustomed to facing blunt questions with plain answers, and managed to run his fleet-footed political race with remarkably little religious heckling. But last week Kennedy found himself caught in a Catholic-Protestant clerical crossfire on the incendiary issue of birth control. And before the week was over even the Protestant Democratic candidates were...
...Blunt Inquiry. Protestant reaction to the statement was swift. It was tragic, said Dr. John C. Bennett, Congregational minister and faculty dean of New York's Union Theological Seminary, to see Catholic leaders pressing "a point of view . . . which has no sound moral or religious basis, and which has been rejected by most other Christian groups." The Catholic bishops' position, said Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of San Francisco, would "condemn rapidly increasing millions of people in less fortunate parts of the world to starvation, bondage, misery and despair." Bishop Pike, himself a convert from Roman Catholicism, demanded...
With that blunt inquiry, Bishop Pike inevitably dropped the problem at the doorstep of the nation's best-known Roman Catholic office seeker-Jack Kennedy. Dodging a personal opinion of the bishops' policy ("That's my business"), Kennedy burned at being put on the spot. Bishop Pike's question, said Kennedy, "should be directed to all public candidates and to all public men. Do they call up other candidates when the bishops of their faith make some kind of statement? I don't want to be called up every time the bishops and priests make...
...must either leave the court or abandon writing," explained he. "And I feel the latter course a psychological impossibility [for] a writer who finds himself increasingly immersed in characters taking shape in his mind." To critics of his decision (notably Republican legislators in Lansing) the judge countered with a blunt opinion: "While other lawyers may write my opinions, they can scarcely write my books...
...human being," reported Murrow's voice. "And then in 5½ seconds it was all over." After that, the successful firing of another Juno three months later was an anticlimax for the film. But from drawing board until a Juno actually got into orbit. Biography was a blunt and forceful epitaph for the Army's career in space. The week before Missile went on the air, reported Murrow, the President transferred Juno's creators and all their future projects to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...