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While demonstrators battled with police in Chicago last week, the Beatles released a new single recording, Revolution, addressed to radical activists the world over. Their message will surprise some, disappoint others, and perhaps move many: cool it. "We all want to change the world," they sing over an exhilarating blast of hard rock. But not through destruction or "minds that hate...
...advisers were similarly inclined to cheer. The Vice President has promised to issue a major Viet Nam statement in the near future, but Johnson's more-of-the-same policy makes it difficult for him to say anything that does not either repudiate the President or disappoint those who want to see a swift end to the war. For the time being, he contented himself with a thinly veiled rebuke to his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Eugene McCarthy. "Peace talkers are 10?a dozen today," Humphrey said at a dinner-dance at Manhattan's Waldorf...
...speed of a lot of flankers in this league." Another scout calls Carr "the best foot ball player I've seen this year"; a third predicts that he will be the first player picked in the pro draft. Meylan was "by far the best man on a disappointing Nebraska ball club." The pros like McGill's "determination and aggressiveness-and, as one scout says, "Notre Dame men don't disappoint you too often...
Since the purpose of the Confession was to call the church to its contemporary mission, it was not written as a system of doctrine. It doesn't include all the traditional topics of theology. The Confession will be a disappointment to those who are looking for restatements of old doctrines or for discussions of contemporary theological questions. It will disappoint any who would like to find either a theologically liberal or a socially conservative point of view. The Confession is orthodox, trinitarian, and biblical. Its social point of view is more inclined toward humane, political activism and advocacy than toward...
Despite some probable disappoint ments when and if the tariff cuts take effect on the scale indicated by the final bargaining, the free world should move a step closer to economic unity...