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...Kennedy administration would probably bend over backward to avoid the appearance of evil lest subsequent Catholic candidacies be forever compromised...
...taught for 30 years in the high school and town of Kingsburg, Calif., which Rafer Johnson has now made famous, I am overjoyed at TIME'S recognition of this remarkably fine young man. However, lest one minor incident recounted in TIME'S story leave an unfair impression of the people of Kingsburg, may I testify that any drawing of a color line is most uncharacteristic of Kingsburgers generally. There Rafer has always been accepted on terms of his worth alone-as a responsible leader in grammar and high school, as an able and dignified president of the high...
...Home! Home! Home!" cried the third Lord Home, trying to rally his Scots against the English soldiery by shouting the family name at Flodden Field in 1513. In the heat of battle, the clansmen misunderstood and-so the story goes-took off for home. Ever since, lest another such disaster befall, the family has pronounced the name "Hume...
...started in October 1958, when Rocky was running for Governor in his first try for elective office. He was so ambitiously bent on projecting his own rather than a party image that a top Rockefeller backer urged Nixon to cancel a scheduled TV speech in New York City lest he spoil that image. Nixon came to New York and had a well-publicized breakfast with Rocky...
...feel cannot be objective." Nevertheless, Cowles persisted, and the State Department reluctantly validated the passport. Within three days the Chinese Foreign Ministry granted Snow his visa, though it has rejected countless applications from other newsmen over the past few years. "The speed," said the State Department, "speaks for itself." Lest anyone think that Snow's case might set a precedent, the Chinese explained that Snow was not in China as a newsman at all. He was there merely as the guest of a friend, New Zealand Expatriate and longtime Chinese Communist Propagandist Rewi Alley, with whom Snow is staying...