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...Last fortnight the Rev. Gustave Weigel, a distinguished Jesuit theologian, backed Kennedy's interpretations in a formal statement (TIME, Oct. 10). Last week a group of 169 prominent Catholic laymen -including such ardent Democrats as Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy and Connecticut's Senator Tom Dodd, and such solid Nixon Republicans as former Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce and Professor Francis G. Wilson of the University of Illinois -published a landmark "statement of religious liberty." The statement not only backed Kennedy's position that his religion could and would not compromise his actions as President, but went...
...shattered economies, confused people and misery all the deeper because exposed by freedom. But on Africa's west coast, the continent's newest and largest free state, Nigeria, last week was settling down to self-government with the same solid serenity that had marked its birth a fortnight ago. It is no coincidence that peaceful Nigeria possesses the freest and most responsible press in black Africa...
...religion issue to stimulate the sympathy of the state's Catholics (39%), as well as the many Jews and Negroes, who are sensitive to bias and bigotry. (Said Congressman Frank Thompson Jr., leader of the Democrats' nationwide voter-registration drive, in a speech at a Levittown luncheon fortnight ago: "If they get a Catholic this time, they'll get a Jew the next time, then a Negro.") Khrushchev helps the Republicans, and so does the memory of Cabot Lodge just across the river at the U.N. (By contrast, Lyndon Johnson's name is conspicuously missing from...
...home to have split an atom. But I had to get my picture." Karsh excused himself, hurried to Washington, where he had appointments to photograph Vice President Nixon and Democratic Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy. Nixon missed the sitting, but Karsh expects to return to do him within the next fortnight. Since the U.S. conventions, he has also photographed Vice-Presidential Candidates Henry Cabot Lodge and Lyndon Johnson...
...average agricultural wage is 60? a day, and 20,000 are unemployed in the capital alone. As much as any other country in the hemisphere, El Salvador is in need of the social reforms proposed by the U.S. to the inter-American development conference in Bogota a fortnight...