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...took to sipping a few watered-down bourbons each week. As a result, he has received quite a few "Brother Moyers" letters from hard-shell Baptists who have heard evil rumors of his dissolute ways. Only recently, he decided to give up drinking altogether-not only because of the furor but also to please his stern-principled parents. It was just as well, for he only recently brought a peptic ulcer under control. To keep it so, he quaffs quarts of milk and Coca-Cola, consumes cups of bouillon at midmorning and midafternoon, takes a couple of Pro-Banthine pills...
...resolution caused something of a furor in both the U.S. and Latin America, but the fuss did not obscure its clear warning to Russia and China. Its object, said Alabama Democrat Armistead Selden, the resolution's sponsor and the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, was "to make it clear to Communists that they cannot count on the principle of nonintervention to shield their takeover of a hemisphere country." Added he: "It is a pretty good mandate about how the people of this country really feel...
...Republican Everett Dirksen, these were outlandish ideas. "I should not like to be around to enjoy the furor," said Dirksen, "if the Vice President undertook, for venal purposes or motivations of his own, to pursue that kind of course . . . The people of this country will have something to say about that. They would not exactly run him out on a rail, but his whole political future, such as it might be, would come to an end at that point." In the end, the amendment's critics failed to get any changes in the language agreed to by the House...
Despite the furor over Mallory, the Supreme Court last year tackled the interrogation problem at the state level with the now-famous decision in Escobedo v. Illinois. In its most controversial action yet, the court voided Chicago Laborer Danny Escobedo's murder confession because it was made after the police had refused to let him see his lawyer, who was actually waiting in the station house at the time. Though vaguely worded, the court's ruling indicated that the right to counsel begins when police start grilling a prime suspect-a plainly impractical proposition, declared dissenting Justice Byron...
...Vatican spokesmen were quick to regret the unnecessary christening. Such unwarranted rebaptisms are clearly on the way out. Last month an Ecumenical Commission of Roman Catholic bishops and theologians, at a historic dialogue with Episcopal clergy in Washington, agreed that conditional baptism should be discouraged. If nothing else, the furor over Luci's rebaptism ought to help the word get around. By spotlighting the fact that "baptism is the one sacrament that unites all Christians," said Episcopal Dean Francis B. Sayre of the Washington Cathedral, "Luci innocently made a contribution to the ecumenical movement...