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...enough, they feel, that Roman Catholics so often get away with calling themselves plain Catholics, although anyone who says the Apostles' Creed identifies himself as a member of the Holy Catholic Church.* But to carry the label Protestant, which goes back more to Martin Luther than to the fuss with Henry VIII, seems to them unjustly imprecise...
...Lacerda is a formidable antagonist. He returned to Rio and announced that Justice Minister Horta had invited him to join a Quadros plot to grab more authority for himself by sending Brazil's holdover Congress into permanent recess. As Lacerda's charges began to stir a fuss, Quadros dramatically resigned. It was seven years and a day from the resignation and suicide of Brazilian Strongman Getúlio Vargas, another President who had incurred Lacerda's wrath...
...fuss grew, and reporters jangled telephones in Hyannisport, where the President was seeking weekend relaxation. But Press Secretary Pierre Salinger professed complete ignorance of any attempt to fire Bowles. When he got back to Washington, Kennedy was so irked by the splurge of Bowles-inspired stories that he canceled a White House lunch with Hubert Humphrey, summoned Bowles back to a second meal. This time there were no leaks, but Salinger announced with finality that Bowles was going on an important, 18-day trip to meet with chiefs of U.S. missions in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. Obviously...
Sandys' first stop was New Zealand, which, surprisingly, made the least fuss despite the fact that it stands to lose the most should Britain cuts its Common wealth trade ties. Last year New Zealand shipped 89% of its butter, 94% of its cheese, 94% of its lamb and mutton to Britain-all told, half of its total exports. "The British government provides our very livelihood," pleaded Prime Minister Keith Holyoake, then agreed to a Sandys communique approving Britain's opening negotiations with the Six, provided that New Zealand's interests were safe guarded...
Modestly, Heroine Saltonstall claimed that "any of the mothers standing around could have done the thing I did." As for Caroline, she was totally unharmed and totally unconcerned about the brief, horrified adult fuss. All she wanted was to get back into the swim-and to get an answer to a perfectly obvious question: What was that nice lady doing in the pool with all her clothes...