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...clerics, academics and polemicists of every tone proclaims that the U.S. position is evil, or at least morally questionable. When Cardinal Spellman exhorted American soldiers to hope and fight for victory in Viet Nam, he was widely criticized by other churchmen, many of them Roman Catholics. William Sloane Coffin, chaplain of Yale University, has said: "It may well be that, morally speaking, the United States ship of state is today comparable to the Titanic just before it hit the iceberg...
...considerable surprise. After reading Manchester's claim that there was an ugly feud between the Kennedy party and Johnson on the flight back to Washington from Dallas, she said: "I had no awareness that this was going on. All I could think of was my husband in that coffin...
...Paul Wakefield, and evidently transported the cancer. He could not be more specific, because his autopsy did not include a microscopic examination of the twins' connected tissues. They had requested that they not be separated even after death-so that they could be buried in a special coffin in the state in which they had lived and died...
...bunting one night last week to ring a 250-lb. bronze replica of the Liberty Bell. "I toll for justice, Christianity and civilization," cried Smith at a ball celebrating the first anniversary of his Unilateral Declaration of Independence. "Every time it chimes it will be another nail in the coffin of those who want to interfere in the internal affairs of Rhodesia." Then Smith and his wife went out on the dance floor to kick the gong around...
...current exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Director Evan H. Turner has tapped 80 collectors and museums around the world, assembled 83 of Manet's oils, rounded out the exhibit with many more sketches, lithographs, pastels and etchings (see color pages). Although the catalogue, by Anne Coffin Hanson, art history professor at Bryn Mawr, is a collector's item for art scholars, the chronological exhibition itself will be seen again only at the Art Institute of Chicago...