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...such a demand might develop. It would be presumptuous to assume that it will. However, if it should, like any other concerned American I would have a duty to accept." Back home, the Detroit News growled: "Governor Romney has impaired his re-election chances in Michigan. He has brought dismay to a state party just organizing in his image after 14 years of defeat." Romney replied that his remarks were no more than "the normal reaction of any red-blooded American." > Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton was having trouble fighting off his followers. He told a Harrisburg news conference...
...Pastor Glenesk was educated at the University of Toronto and Columbia, worked as a professional teacher, actor and social worker before his ordination. He was called to Spencer in 1955. It was then a staid little parish faced with the prospect of expanding or closing shop. Much to the dismay of oldtimers at Spencer-one of them calls him "that big clown clunking around the church in leotards"-Glenesk decided to make a play for the newcomers in Brooklyn Heights, many of them arts-conscious, church-shy refugees from Greenwich Village. Glenesk has lost some veteran members of the congregation...
...Goodman was twice as good alone with the small group, the students who trailed after him were disappointed. The stripped down contact he had promised them in the forum, turned out to be a conventionally intellectualized Harvard discussion of history and personalities, communism and anarchy. To the student's dismay; Goodman was unenthusiastic about drugs; he called IFIF "an unpersuasive blend of Zen and Madison Avenue...
Washington reacted with dismay-and anger. There was Congressional talk of suspending all aid to Argentina if the companies were not compensated. Buenos Aires sounded a little surprised at the outrage in the U.S., and a government official pointed out that somewhere in all the nationalistic verbiage annulling the contracts was the phrase: "the rights of the oil companies will be protected...
Brains, beards, civil rights, silly riots and sex-such is the confusing image of this year's U.S. collegian. His mind delights; his morals dismay. He is something new: a cross between the inert "apathetes" of the late '50s and the naive activists of the early '60s. He might be called a "personalist"-one who stresses self-development-and he sounds like this...