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...loser, is giving APRA a hard race. Tirelessly stumping Peru's 144 provinces, he preaches much the same economic and social reform as does APRA, draws huge crowds from all those who hate and fear APRA. His opinions about the rabid left hardened abruptly a fortnight ago when he got beaned by a Castroite rock and angrily disavowed "all forms of leftism." His supporters argue that in a sorely divided nation he would have the easiest road to travel as President, since he is the most acceptable to all factions. Nor can the third candidate be written...
...woman with a scientific turn of mind, a desire to believe in God, and a distrust in Christian dogma may well find himself in the pew of a Unitarian or Universalist Church. Casting up membership totals at the first annual convention of the Unitarian Universalist Association in Washington last fortnight, President Dana McLean Greeley told 1,000 delegates that he thought their church (membership: 200,000) might double in size within the next decade. "We have thought of ourselves as a tiny denomination; but with adequate vision and will, in a quarter of a century we could become a denomination...
Tipped by a newspaper broker, Newhouse flew down to New Orleans fortnight ago, heavily loaded with hard cash. Before the nine board members of the Times-Picayune Publishing Co., Newhouse waved an offer of $42 million-his price for all 280,000 shares of the company's stock. Seven of the directors promptly produced 100,000 shares, more than enough for effective working control...
...they customarily kept on hand in the 1950s. Above all, the steelmakers complain that President Kennedy's determination to hold the price line denies them the capital that they need to cut their costs through modernization of their plants. At the American Iron & Steel Institute meeting in Manhattan fortnight ago, Pittsburgh Steel's President Allison R. Maxwell Jr. summed up the industry's complaints: "Prices must be high enough to build the markets of tomorrow. We need tremendous new investment in ultramodern facilities, and the money to finance this investment is ultimately derived from just one source...
...Denver. Deploring "euphemism" and "prudishness," the report made the assumption that the church cannot maintain its "embarrassed silence" of the past because Protestant men and women today need clear stands on sex-as was shown, for example, by the violent pros and cons Vassar President Sarah Blanding provoked a fortnight ago when she called premarital sex dishonorable and offensive...