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...Tulane Law School in 1914. At 27 he was a district judge, in 1924 became district attorney for Plaquemines and neighboring St. Bernard's Parish-a position he gave up only this week, having airily announced that his son, Leander Jr., would take over the job. But lest anyone get the idea that he was retiring, Perez explained: "I intend to remain as assistant district attorney. The state constitution provides that the assistant district attorney has all the powers of the district attorney...
Both prelates-like today's political leaders of the West-were worried lest they raise false hopes that all differences can be settled by a meeting at the summit. Vatican observers said hopefully that "a first and significant step has been taken," and Pope John saw the meeting going "only as far as the threshold of great problems." A cautious spokesman for the Church of England said, "His Holiness expressed to the Archbishop his great desire to increase brotherly feelings among all men, and especially among all Christians." But as the Archbishop had observed in advance: "Talking trivialities...
...insisted that the new credit easing was a routine seasonal matter, but bankers and economists viewed it as a measure clearly designed to aid the static economy. One reason for FRB's caution is that it wants to avoid any sharp change in interest rates lest it step up the U.S. outflow of gold to nations with higher interest rates (see The Solid Gold Problem). Even more important, FRB is moving slowly because, like everyone else, it is unsure about where the economy is going - and whether it needs a nudge or a big push of easier credit...
...claims that America is the strongest nation in the world. Candidate Kennedy states that America may well not be the strongest, that we have some work to do. To Mr. Nixon I refer some time-honored advice from St. Paul: "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall...
...Lest his customers think that he is throwing in the pencil, Gallup later declared that he would keep on polling right up to election time, warned nervously that voter opinion has a way of shifting in the closing days of a campaign, as Gallup sorrowfully learned...