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...best spirit of the political contest, he did get in a few slaps at Goldwater without mentioning Barry's name: "America will not-and it should not-respond to a political creed that cherishes the past solely because it offers an excuse for shutting out, the hard facts and difficult tasks of the present. The people of America want to know how the Republican Party proposes to meet the problems and opportunities of today-and not some notion of how it might re-create yesterday." And at a press conference in Concord, Rocky cut loose with a vengeance. Said...
Markedly Unsuccessful. Some such proud creed ripples from dozens of newspaper mastheads, nailed up-but seldom nailed down-by high-minded publishers. Dozens of other mastheads support unvarnished claims to greatness, as if the quality were something that has merely to be claimed to be possessed. The Chicago Tribune, for example, has been the "World's Greatest Newspaper" since 1911, when Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, the paper's founder, unilaterally decided that the description fitted. Whatever tie the Tribune may have had to the title was ruptured by the colonel's death...
Watson did not object to admitting Association members free, but said, "Under no circumstances could we allow a group to discriminate on the basis of residence in a particular city, or the type of clothes worn, or race, religion or creed...
...Atlanta City Council, apparently moved less by King's oratory than by the fact that local segregation ordinances are one after another being declared illegal by the courts, adopted a sweeping law that abolishes "all ordinances which require the separation of persons because of race, color or creed." Among those repealed were measures that had made it illegal for bars to serve beer or wine to whites and Negroes in the same room, Negro barbers to cut the hair of white women, amateur baseball teams of different races to play within two blocks of one another, and Negroes...
...Creed: Yes or No. Evangelical conservatism makes open war on secularism; it distrusts Rome and opposes any movement toward union with Catholicism; it stands opposed to the "liberalism" and ecumenical spirit of the leaders of the mainstream Protestant denominations in the National Council of Churches. "Conservatism holds to the necessity of recognizing an absolute deity," says the Rev. Curtis Nims of San Francisco's First Baptist Church. "The conservative accepts the Bible as the authoritative rule of faith and practice. The corporeal Resurrection and the Virgin Birth are firm parts of conservative doctrine." In theology, according to Dr. Roger...