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Fading Blue Collars. A major???perhaps decisive?factor in the G.O.P. resurgence was the fact that National Chairman Bliss's "cities strategy" was beginning to pay off. During the campaign, he conducted more than 50 "big-city workshops" for precinct

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: A Party for All | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...three other basilicas in Rome? St. John Lateran, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Mary Major???specially deputed cardinals will "batter down" other holy portals. The symbolism of the rite is variously interpreted?by some as representing the return of Adam and Eve (i.e., humanity) to Paradise through the intercession of Christ; by others, as having sprung from the fact that the medieval church was sanctuary for fugitives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anno Jubilaes | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

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