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When the U.S. aircraft carrier Hor net, accompanied by two submarines and some eleven U.S. and Japanese destroyers, steamed into the Sea of Japan on maneuvers (Operation Crossed T), they knew that they would find the Russians waiting. Moscow likes to consider the Sea of Japan just a large bay of its naval base at Vladivostok. This time the Russians did not just look on. The Russian destroyer Besslednyi began cutting in between the maneuvering vessels, ignoring urgent warning signals to stay clear. In a game of "chicken" on the sea, it twice came to within...
Afterward, the Pope greeted the only survivor among the three children who reported seeing the Fátima vision-Lucia dos Santos, now a 60-year-old Carmelite nun-and conferred briefly with Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Eleven hours after his arrival, Paul was winging back to Rome. Whatever its temporal effects on peace, many Catholics regarded the Pope's visit as a religious incongruity. To encourage ecumenism with Protestants, the Second Vatican Council did not emphasize Mary, and the exaggeration of Marian devotion in Catholicism has since declined. In the light of Paul's conservatism...
Unreasonable? The problem, said those who supported the 10-to-2 majority, is that too often justice is frustrated by a silly, prejudiced, stupid, obstinate or even bribed juror who will not go along with the other eleven. Tory shadow cabinet Home Minister Quintin Hogg joined his Labor opposite number Roy Jenkins in supporting the legislation. "A reasonable doubt," he said, "is nothing more than a doubt from which reasons can be given. The fact that one or two men out of twelve differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable...
...both parties there have been some encouraging signs of moderation and modernization, but the turmoil that Wallace is capable of fomenting could destroy this progress. The self-described "spoiler" could also delay the Southern Negro's entry into mainstream politics. By 1968, Negro voter registration in the eleven states of the old Confederacy may exceed 3,250,000, more than double the 1960 figure. Though the actual impact of this potential vote remains to be seen, a third-party bid could keep many Southern Negroes at home on Election Day by stimulating K.K.K.-type intimidation, or encourage them...
Having slowed down to round a curve that could have led to recession, the U.S. economy now is on the straightaway and picking up speed. Last week the stock market, which reacts today to what investors expect of tomorrow, climbed to an eleven-month peak...