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...startling and even disturbing. Yet such drives as the ecumenical movement and use of the liturgy in the vernacular are really intended to recover the forms of an older, deeper Christianity. From the churches to the laboratories, change itself has become the only constant. Says Stanford's Dr. Dwight Allen: "We are not shifting from one sort of tradition to another; we are in flux for keeps. We have to adjust institutions, attitudes, professions to the fact that change is here to stay...
...knew there was a Kansas," said Critic Dwight MacDonald. "So I guessed there had to be a University of Kansas." MacDonald was right, of course-there has been a University of Kansas for 100 years. Last week he and a dozen other celebrities helped K.U. mark its centennial, and saw how the school that started out offering courses in "Xenophon's Anabasis" and "Cicero's Orations" has grown to a big and diverse university full in the process of self-renewal...
Since he founded the John Birch Society nearly ten years ago, Robert Welch has displayed one of the most fertile imaginations in American politics. Though his fascinating statement that Dwight Eisenhower had consciously served the "Communist conspiracy for all his adult life" will probably remain its foremost figment, his mind has lost none of its youthful fancy with advancing years...
President Johnson, who knows an impossible job when he sees one, stayed on the Podernales an extra day. It was the first time a President had skipped an opener since lame-duck Dwight Eisenhower put in an extra day's golf at Augusta...
...Dwight Eisenhower's distaste for political maneuver brought Richard Nixon to the front as the top party campaigner. Eisenhower included Nixon in Cabinet meetings, and when the President was absent, Nixon presided over both Cabinet and National Security Council. John Kennedy brought Lyndon Johnson closer to security affairs, sent him on a series of good-will missions abroad. But there was no closeness between the two men. "What ever became of Lyndon?" was by summer 1963 a real, rather than a funny, question. Nonetheless, by Humphrey's time the vice-presidency, as Historian James MacGregor Burns has written...