Word: junes
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...wonder exactly what Mr. Billy Graham meant by the "high standard of Russian morality" [June 29]. Can the constant watch of Big Brother induce genuine virtue? If Russian people are intrinsically on a higher moral level than the British people, how is it to be explained that Russian troops cruelly misused women in the countries they fought and occupied? Did they leave their "moral purity" at home...
...Religion should not enter into politics" [June 29]. Such a statement was surely put down by a hand acting independent of any rational influence. If religion should not enter into politics, it should not enter into economics or any other aspect of our society. In fact, we should not have religion at all, for if our religion does not influence our society, we are all hypocrites without convictions. On the other hand, if our elected representatives are to serve our interests, they cannot be in opposition to our religious views...
...Great Impostor [June 29], Culter Academy in Los Angeles has felt the impact of the charming and intelligent Demara, who was a member of the faculty for two months. He was hired just last February to teach a section of the eighth grade. He used the name Jefferson B. Thome, and left transcripts from William and Mary in the office. In conversation he said that he had been educated in private schools in England, had been a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, a teacher and principal for 13 years in Massachusetts and for a year in Alaska...
Then one day while waiting my turn for a fast trim at the barber's, I picked up the June 1 issue of TIME and read the following article in MISCELLANY...
Vindication of Dixon-Yates came just four weeks too late to help Lewis L. Strauss in his unsuccessful battle to win Senate confirmation as Secretary of Commerce. During the prolonged Strauss hearings (TIME, June 15 et seq.), Democrats made much of his role as AEC chairman in working out the Dixon-Yates contract, used it against him in the fight that led to the first turndown (49-46) of a presidential Cabinet nomination since the days of Teapot Dome...