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...them were Catholics, mostly Irish Catholics. Apparently the election of Kennedy has not cut off one of the more significant political developments of recent years: the growing tendency for Catholics to espouse conservative political views. (New York liberals and conservatives alike privately admit that liberal movements tend to enlist large numbers of Jews, while conservativism appeals primarily to Catholics.) But while an ethnic interpretation of the rally might be reasonable, a Marxist one clearly is out -- the students were from all economic levels. It was by no means a rally of "Wall Street ruling circles...
...enough spectators turn out for the demonstration, the YSA will probably stage a public meeting on the sidewalk, to enlist additional support for its cause...
Passing Mood. Albert Davis Ricketts Jr. ("Whoever heard of a columnist named Albert Davis Ricketts Jr.?") was born in St. Louis, broke up a foundering nightclub comedy team-he played straight man-to enlist in the Army in 1952. Sent to the Orient, he drifted onto the Pacific Stars and Stripes as a second-string movie reviewer, a job he regarded as license to torpedo everything...
...tackling the administrative aspect of its Latin American headache, the new Administration saw two main problems. One was to replace the overlapping, often contradictory activities of scores of departments and agencies with a single, cohesive U.S. policy. The other was to find a way to get Berle to re-enlist in the State Department. Despite all en treaties, Berle refused his old post as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, a job aptly described by a previous incumbent as "tremendous responsibility without authority." The co ordinator idea solved both problems. Standing outside the usual State Department hierarchy, Berle...
Orville Lothrop Freeman, 42. Orville Freeman's Swedish grandfather homesteaded a farm in Minnesota in the 1850s, but Orville was a city boy, son of a Minneapolis storekeeper. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota just in time to enlist in the Marines at the start of World War II. During the Bougainville campaign, a Japanese bullet ripped through his left cheek, left him unable to speak. As the wound healed-the scar is still visible-Freeman learned to talk again and in the process developed into an uncommonly forceful orator...