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...dearth of traveling companions. In Maryland, Governor Spiro Agnew announced that he would organize a draft-Rockefeller movement "in response to the ground swell of public opinion that I have seen developing." Sixty-six prominent Republicans in Oregon set up a similar group, vowing they would conduct a Rockefeller write-in campaign for the Oregon primary should he refuse to allow his name on the ballot. Said Governor Tom McCall: "If this effort can help bring Rockefeller into the Oregon primary, then its sponsors will have performed a public service of national magnitude...
...pastoral letter last week that was both a summons to continued renewal of the church and a warning against excessive zeal for reform. In the spirit of recent papal encyclicals on social affairs, it urged Catholics to be concerned with the eradication of "indignity, injustice and inhumanity" on the ground that "when one of us is denied justice, all are threatened." At the same time, the letter upheld the primacy of the spiritual over the secular and censured a kind of religious amnesia that has blotted out respect for past traditions...
Berserk is the ninth inexpensive pseudo-shocker ground out since 1957 by Producer Herman Cohen, who first dis.-covered the gold in those chills with I Was a Teenage Werewolf. "I made Berserk for the same reason I made Werewolf," said Cohen. But why did Miss Crawford make...
Mortimer Adler, the philosopher and dialectician who heads Chicago's Institute for Philosophical Research, argues that the matter is far from merely academic. If man is not basically different from the animals, that would undermine "those who now oppose injurious discrimination on the moral ground that all human beings, being equal in their humanity, should be treated equally." Inferior types might be looked upon as man now looks on inferior animals. A large measure of truth could be read into one of Hitler's Nürnberg decrees that held "there is a greater difference between the lowest...
...long haul. It is not going to be easy to change this country. To change it is going to mean struggles and anguish day in and day out for years. It will mean incredible efforts at great human cost to gain a few inches of ground. It will mean people dedicating their lives and possibly losing them for a cause we can only partly define and whose outcome we can only guess at. We must say Yes to the long struggle ahead or this service will be a mockery...