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Business after all, is business, and so last month the Post unveiled its new feature column "Speaking Out: The Voice of Dissent." Herman Kahn, publicity man for Civil Defense, helped christen the column by agreeing with 99 per cent of America on how necessary it is to prepare for war. The cynical quickly complained the new Dissent was only false advertising; but as one shrewd observer commented, "What Kahn actually challenges is the prevalent notion that nuclear war will somehow be unpleasant...
...with a piping voice and a slangy sweetness-and-light that in the past four decades won him an earnest following. At first these followers were known as Oxford Groupers or Buchmanites, but in 1938. as the nations of the world rearmed for war. Dr. Buchman was inspired to christen his movement Moral Re-Armament. Stumping the world, he gathered testimonials-sometimes heartfelt, sometimes diplomatically polite-from kings, labor leaders. Oriental potentates, Mau-Mau leaders...
...Mamie Eisenhower stepped off the train at Philadelphia on the way to christen the nuclear ship Savannah last week (see The Atom), a telegram from the President was handed to her. Turning to a stocky, crop-haired man in her party, she said, "I want to be the first to congratulate you," and passed the telegram along to him. Thus was Frederick H. Mueller, 65, informed that he had been chosen to fill the hole in the Eisenhower team left by the Senate's rejection of Lewis Strauss (TIME, June...
Fresh and buoyant in a blue print dress and matching turban, Mamie Eisenhower took a few practice swings, baseball-style, then smashed a champagne bottle frothily on the looming bow, pronouncing the traditional formula: "I christen thee N.S. [for nuclear ship] Savannah.* Godspeed." After a second's hesitation, America's first nuclear-powered merchant vessel slid easily down the ways at Camden, N.J. and into the waters of the Delaware...
...short stroll from the gutted hulk of Berlin's old Reichstag one blustery day last week, a young German girl stepped resolutely forward, smashed a bottle of German wine against a brand-new building set on the banks of the River Spree, proclaimed in a clear voice. "I christen you the Congress Hall in memory of Benjamin Franklin." Thus was opened Berlin's newest and most venturesome building, a joint project of the U.S., the West German government and the city of Berlin. Designed as a cultural center where plays, music, debates and symposiums will be held...