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Between the mountain and the plain there is a brisk two-way traffic in theologians. Many of them make their camp at some convenient halfway point (although in these trying times a mountain residence is considered more comfortable) -and there are some commuters. But few have dared attempt to bring the mountain and the plain together in a single theological system. Of these, the man who has made the most systematic effort-and, along with Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the most brilliant-is a 66-year-old professor at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Dr. Paul Tillich. In The Theology...
...word mañana will be erased from our administration," Panama's new President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón told a crowd of 20,000 Panamanians in his inaugural address last week. Taking over a government that is $40 million in debt, Chichi promised a brisk, businesslike administration, fairer and more efficient tax collections, and a realistic budget that would permit Panama to live within its means. Most of those means are derived from the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal, which bisects his tiny (pop. 805,000) isthmian country; the new President said that cordial relations with...
...their age, though Eisenhower is a bit farsighted and Stevenson wears reading glasses because his eyes are slow to adjust for close range. Both have normal lungs, but Stevenson suffers occasionally from bronchitis. The governor's heart beats faster-80 to the minute at rest, 110 after brisk exercise; the general's averages 72, goes up to 96 on exercise. The general has the higher blood pressure, averaging 134/90 (it has been as high as 156/96); the governor's is healthily on the low side, at 110/72...
This Alice-in-Wonderland atmosphere was thickened by the mixture of formality and laxity that prevailed at court. No one dined with the Queen without invitation -but this might come in the form of a cockney footman's brisk bark to a roomful of ladies-in-waiting: "All what's 'ere dines with the Queen." Ponsonby was not allowed to smoke, even when decoding dispatches in his own room; the stench, complained the Queen, permeated the papers. But, on occasion, footmen and Highland servants could get so drunk that a royal dinner was punctuated by .the crash...
...last stop was the Lodge headquarters, one floor of a medium sized office building. Since the campaign crew was in the process of moving in, the headquarters was a turmoil. As usual, the publicity director was out, but a brisk campaign manager refereed us to a not-so-brisk secretary, who said she could not give us anything without permission...