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...smack into yet another fiasco at New York's Kennedy Airport, where they were promptly bucked back to Madrid because they lacked proper visas. At week's end, they tried a second time, with visas, and made it through to Asuncion, the capital of friendly Paraguay. Diehard Peronistas in neighboring Argentina claimed that it was an advance party and that Peron might still work his way to Asuncion...
...Time after time-on nuclear policy, farm subsidies, civil rights, TVA and social security-he seemed to take a firm stand, backed away, then complained bitterly about having been misquoted. More important, he made almost no major speech calculated to win him any new votes beyond those of the diehard, pre-San Francisco Goldwaterites...
...latest Minnesota poll, published by the Minneapolis Tribune, shows Lyndon Johnson leading Barry Goldwater by an amazing 74% to 22% in the state. MacGregor thus suffers from identification on the ticket with Goldwater. At the same time, a diehard segment of Goldwaterites in his district threatens to boycott MacGregor because he was a strong supporter of Bill Scranton at San Francisco...
...doctors are not Lamaze disciples admit to weaving some of his and Dr. Dick Read's teachings into their obstetrics. Just about all big-city hospitals allow the husbands to be with their wives during labor (a Lamaze precept; it helps to relax the mother), and the most diehard anti-naturalists among obstetricians now recognize the value of prenatal education and exercise...
...even in the name of what Martin Luther King calls "the moral law or the law of God." To lawyers, divine code is too vague for the earthly task of preserving peace and good order here and now. Were all men free to act out their individual "consciences"-as diehard segregationists still insist-victory would simply go to those with the most power, the most guns. By contrast, the rule of law provides enforceable standards-and machinery to change them...