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...still-dominant Democrats also got a sorely needed transfusion. While such segregationist stalwarts as Arkansas' John McClellan, Georgia's Richard Russell, Louisiana's Allen Ellender and Mississippi's James Eastland were returned to the Senate with little or no opposition, a number of more progressive Democrats also won statewide office???notably Buford Ellington, elected Governor of Tennessee, and South Carolina's Governor Robert E. McNair, who as Lieutenant Governor acceded to the top job last year when Governor Donald Russell resigned. In Virginia, the big winner was William Spong, the moderate Democrat who ousted Senator A. Willis Robertson...
...church is renewal, to be achieved, much like L.B.J.'s dream of the Great Society, by consensus?a goal that can easily thwarted by compromise or by inaction where no reconciliation is possible A man genuinely humble in person, he is eager to preserve the prestige of his office???an aim that sometimes leads urn to empty or overly ambitious gestures. Within the past two weeks, the Pauline manner has been dramatically visible in three major acts of his pontificate: the announcement of his trip to the U.N.; the issuance, just prior to the opening of the council...
...clear that the matter is by no means settled. Catholic scholars are deeply involved in new Biblical studies?sometimes over the objections of the Holy Office???that are giving them new insights into the nature and form of revelation and bringing them into intellectual cooperation with Protestant scholars. Was there really a star of Bethlehem? Were there really wise men from the East? Some scholars, in their efforts to plumb the positive depths of meaning in the Scriptures with tools of modern critical research, are willing to question these revered ideas. A new generation of Catholic thinkers, particularly in Europe...
...trying to persuade or cajole somebody, as he often is, he grabs an arm or shoulder in a bruising grip, and a hint of the carnival snake-oil seller shows in his voice. His fellow Senators joke about the lavish vanity of his tailoring and his baronial Senate office???but they respect him, too. Last June the non-partisan Congressional Quarterly polled Senators and Representatives on who they thought would be the Democratic Party's "strongest possible" presidential candidate; of the 220 members who replied, 54% named Lyndon Johnson, only 20% named Jack Kennedy (Adlai Stevenson came in third with...
Having seen all these arrangements the President rolled into his own new office???oval like the old one but, by his order, two feet wider, two feet longer. Handsomest room in the building, it is decorated with the great Presidential Seal set in the ceiling, has indirect lighting simulating daylight. All the furniture is old except a new duralumin lamp upon the desk. The President found it all just as he had planned it. Waiting in an adjoining office ?the only one in the building that is pink instead of green?to take his dictation was Private Secretary Marguerite...