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...Without fuss or strain, Adlai Stevenson last week proved that he is in charge of the national Democratic Party. His followers had little trouble, at the Democratic National Committee meeting in New Orleans, in putting over their candidate to succeed Stevenson's friend, Steve Mitchell, as national chairman...
...atheist with the courage of his convictions should die and let himself be buried without fuss. After all, why make much ceremonial ado about a body that has just passed into Nothing? But in practice, even atheists have a hankering for music and a few well-chosen words, and this pressing problem has just been taken up by Corliss Lamont, 52, the wealthy fellow traveler. In a pamphlet entitled A Humanist Funeral Service (Horizon Press; $1.00), Lamont paradoxically proposes some comforting last rites for unbelievers. In 1932, Lamont wrote his Columbia Ph.D. thesis on "The Illusion of Immortality...
...Minister Molotov showed no such disposition. Molotov in fact seemed eager to exploit the matter, in marked contrast to a recent hushed-up but far more serious, affair involving two British embassy employees who beat up a couple of Russian policemen, but were allowed to leave the country without fuss...
There was some doubt about how much all the fuss was worth in terms of political value. A recent survey, conducted under Republican auspices, showed Homer Ferguson ahead of McNamara by 65% to 35%, with Governor Williams leading Republican Leonard by 60% to 40%. If the poll was close to accurate-and many observers thought it was-no amount of campaigning could make up the difference...
...knees trembling to curtsy, boards ready to groan. But the Duchess, whose U.S. visit is unofficial, apparently evaded most of the lacquered talons, went quietly about sightseeing like any other tourist in the big city for the first time. At week's end, with just as little fuss, she moved on to Washington, D.C., was soon swallowed up by the British embassy...