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...lively and far-flung correspondence, ranging from kudos to clouts, which last year elicited comment from theologians, politicians, playwrights and kings. This week prominent Episcopal Layman Charles P. Taft (brother of the late Senator) joins TIME and its Dec. 12 cover subject, Jesuit John Courtney Murray, in the "dialogue" of church-state separation (see LETTERS), an engrossing issue that last week was examined by Jewish Theological Seminary Chancellor Louis Finkelstein, Baptist Minister and Christian Herald Editor Daniel A. Poling and Socialist (and onetime Presbyterian Minister) Norman Thomas...
...West Germans' refusal to acquiesce in the division of their country, and, as such, was sedulously maintained. Eleven years later the Ministry of Transport is still over a bank, Atomic Affairs in a hotel, Treasury in a castle on the Rhine. The diplomatic set is even more far-flung- the Russians in a former resort hotel ten miles out of town, the Chileans upstairs over a Woolworth store...
...Peter Lawford manned the five wire-association tickers in his stocking feet. Press Aide Pierre Salinger, Chief Adviser Ted Sorensen, Scheduling Coordinator Kenny O'Donnell, Top Organizer Larry O'Brien and Pollster Lou Harris (working feverishly with past election records and a slipstick) analyzed reports from far-flung observers-90 appointed assistants in key precincts all over the nation-who phoned in their findings direct. Bobby kept in touch with Democratic National Committee Chairman Henry ("Scoop") Jackson in Washington over a direct telephone line. He had another private line to Jack's house, but frequently Jack went...
...take off). Although his battle to acquire "enough diversification so that my sons [four surviving] wouldn't have to scrap with each other" eventually made him the producer of everything from badminton birds to wrought iron. O'Neil kept tabs on the bosses of his 46 far-flung subsidiaries and affiliates with the frequent query, "Why the hell aren't you fellows making more money?" Last year his General Tire, which netted $620 in 1915, made $26 million on a $703 million gross...
...Senate rackets committee in 1957, he flayed Teamster hoods and faced down Jimmy Hoffa, added color to Brother Jack's campaign as a cocky crusader and bestselling author (The Enemy Within}. Father of seven, he got home to his wooded northern Virginia estate infrequently during far-flung primary battles, plans to be back in action this week as Jack's campaign manager after a three-day post-convention break...