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Thanks to his wartime record and his cool professionalism, Moorer, at 45, became the youngest man ever to be promoted to admiral. He has been steaming ahead at flank speed ever since. And most Navymen agree that he has even brighter prospects ahead. Said CINCPAC's Admiral Sharp last week: "Tom is an outstanding candidate for the next Chief of Naval Operations...
Yugoslavia (6,000,000 Catholics) offers considerably brighter prospects. The regime has abandoned its intransigent anti-Catholicism since the death in 1960 of Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac, churches are open and full of worshipers, a thriving religious press circulates freely. Yugoslav bishops easily gained travel permits to attend the Vatican Council or make their normal ad limina visits to the Pope. Last December, the Yugoslav Communist League Congress dropped its ban on religious practice by party members. A number of government officials formally congratulated Archbishop Franjo Seper of Zagreb after the announcement that he would be made a cardinal at Pope...
Threading his way between the stacks of books, he returned to his seat and relit his pipe, his eyes smiling through his steel-rimmed spectacles. "American undergraduates are more articulate than they are bright, and brighter than they are intelligent. By 'bright' I mean the ability to solve problems within a pre-established framework of reasoning. 'Intelligence' is the willingness and the ability to establish a framework for yourself...
...aides draw between $35,000 and $45,000 annually-salaries reasonable enough for the officers of a large corporation. But Moses allowed the fair staff to burgeon unrealistically, and costs skyrocketed. Moses tacitly admitted the situation last October by slashing the permanent payroll. He promises a "new and brighter show in 1965," says of the present crisis that "we have survived worse weather." Nonetheless, the forecast for the fair in 1965 remains cloudy...
...Development Association and the Inter-American Bank. The President also proposed a plan to stimulate private investment in emerging nations: a tax credit for U.S. companies equal to 30% of their investment in those countries. Congress turned that idea down last year, but the prospects for passage now are brighter...