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...Russians' failures have been due partly to the innate reluctance of the more sophisticated leaders to entrust their nations' future to the Communists, partly to the inability of Soviet industry to deliver the quality and quantity of goods promised. But the Soviet industrial machine is expanding. It will take the West's best united efforts to match its challenge...
Though an able administrator and an adroit politician. Georgy Malenkov was probably too ruthless an intriguer for the big institutions (NKVD, the army, etc.) to entrust their future to. Though he lasted 23 months as Premier of the Soviet Union. Malenkov lasted only 16 days as First Secretary of the party, the crucial job Stalin willed him. Next in line after Malenkov in the hierarchy was Beria (who was quickly liquidated, a sop to popular anti-Stalin feeling, as much as for the crimes he had committed). Then came Molotov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan...
Hildy's mother, now Mrs. Gerald R. Doherty with another child of her own, issued her own statement. "Some day [Hildy] will learn the facts about her mother's desire to protect her with the privacy that others are willing to destroy. Meanwhile ... I entrust her to the loving protection of God. The rest is in the hands of my attorneys...
...that kind of sacramentalist thinking increasingly adopted here which has done so much harm to the Protestant churches of Europe . . . The present emphasis on the sacraments in U.S. churches tends to glorify the churchgoer more than Christ." Barth cites four examples of sacramentalist tendencies: infant baptism, the tendency to entrust church decisions to officials and committees rather than congregations, Protestant leanings toward the Roman Catholic concept of the church as mediator of grace rather than as witness of grace. Furthermore, "we have largely the wrong idea of the Communion. In Biblical times the Lord's Supper was interpreted...
...crowd in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Tuesday night. There, before 18,000 whooping party faithful, he called Nixon "President Eisenhower's hand-picked heir," got a thunderous no from his audience when he asked if Nixon was the man to whom the U.S. wanted to entrust "the great decisions about the H-bomb." He challenged the Administration's handling of the Suez Canal crisis and the Middle East situation, asserting that Russia's influence there is at a peak, that "the rising fires of Arab nationalism" are a threat to world peace...