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...Jesuit magazine America, recently stirred the coals of the argument by declaring that people who attempt to storm their neighbors' shelters are nothing more than "unjust aggressors" and should be "repelled with whatever means will effectively deter their assault." Last week Washington's Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun answered McHugh. "I do not see how any Christian conscience can condone a policy which puts supreme emphasis on saving your own skin without regard for the plight of your neighbor," he said. "Justice, mercy and brotherly love do not cease to operate, even in the final apocalypse." Most Christians would...
...Preminger himself was really the show. Like an Erich von Stroheim Prussian officer he thundered, "Vy are you in de vay!" at a pair of news photographers, who scurried away clutching their eardrums. To a newshen who blurred his line of vision, he roared: "I dun't care eef you are from a noospaper! You are veasible!'' She quickly made herself inveasible...
...Raynesford, Mont. (pop. 62), a cowboy can saunter out of the Mint Bar, ride two miles over rolling, dun-colored country, and watch hard-hatted construction workers pouring concrete around a Minuteman launch silo 89 feet deep. North of Little Rock, Ark., where the Ouachita Mountains slope toward the Mississippi, motorists on U.S. Route 67 can see trailers, cars and cranes clustered around huge wounds that have been gouged in the earth for Titan II missiles. Flying south on Western Airlines Flight 51 near Cheyenne, Wyo., passengers can look down and see the jeweled galaxy of lights around an Atlas...
...gave the only command possible -the evacuation of the army from Dunkirk, the last northern French port left in Allied hands. Ironically, it was called Operation Dynamo. At first, the job seemed impossible, and officers gloomily reckoned on saving no more than 45,000 men. German bombers had ruined Dun kirk's seven modern dock basins. Because the beaches were shallow, small craft were needed, and the navy, in a brilliant recruiting operation, found them. By dawn of May 30, the first wave of an astounding cockleshell armada was heading across the Channel. There was never a navy like...
Paradoxically, the attack on freer trade comes at a time when protectionist sentiment in the business community seems to be declining. Dun's Review, querying 260 corporation presidents, reported that nearly 60% of them firmly oppose tariffs. But protectionists wield increasing political influence. Southern Congressmen who used to be major advocates of free trade have become increasingly protectionist. The cause: the once agrarian South is now more interested in building a tariff shelter over its burgeoning industries than in finding overseas markets for its cotton...