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...Barnett stepped aside, the other if he persisted in his defiance. The President still hoped to avoid sending military forces into Oxford. At one point during the 1960 campaign, he had said in reference to Little Rock: "There is more power in the presidency than to let things drift and then suddenly call out the troops." All during the Ole Miss crisis, that gibe at Eisenhower must have haunted John Kennedy. He desperately wanted to be able to avoid any accusations that he had let things drift and then suddenly called out the troops...
...captains in huge masks drift past each other...
...social doctrine, the Vatican seems to have abandoned the rigid anti-Communist stand of Pius XII. Most notable sign of Rome's new drift was John XXIII's encyclical Mater et Magistra, which gave papal blessing to socialization that did not deny man's basic right to private property. Last February the Pope asked politically conservative Italian bishops to criticize Premier Amintore Fanfani's "opening to the left." Pope John is no friend of Communism, but he hopes somehow to make it possible for the 63 million Catholics behind the Iron Curtain to preserve their freedom...
...many "value-oriented" students via half-day sessions. As Catholics see it, a controlled Catholic influx would also make public schools more representative of the community. If other churches also built shared-time schools, suggests the Very Rev. Msgr. Arthur T. Geoghegan, diocesan school superintendent in Providence, R.I., "the drift of secularism might be checked...
...faith and hope, tears and laughter. And high in our tradition stands Abraham Lincoln. Can he be explained in any other wav than that he was an instrument of divine destiny? History is but the enfoldment of a divine pattern ... If not this, it can only be materialistic drift. If there be a creative hand behind this universe, there must be a creative hand in its unfoldment and direction. Everything in it -sun, moon, stars, planets, their distances, the calibration so that people will neither freeze nor scorch to death, the procession of the seasons, man's subsistence...