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...director of State's Policy Planning Staff in the Dean Acheson regime, he was calling for a buildup of U.S. military strength months before war came in Korea. During the Eisenhower Administration. Nitze stayed on in Washington as president of the Foreign Service Educational Foundation and as an outspoken critic of the Eisenhower-Dulles doctrine of massive retaliation, fed ideas on limited warfare to leading Democrats and headed Kennedy's pre-election committee on defense...
...Triple Tax." In the New York archdiocese. Cardinal Spellman. who is the most outspoken advocate of federal loans, years ago set up one of the world's most efficient church business offices. Refunding the entire parish-level debt, he saved millions by shifting to commercial paper. Catholic schools educate about 26% of all New York City children at "substantially" less cost than public schools pay. Spellman's recent fund drive for new high schools was oversubscribed by $15 million. But in New York's burgeoning suburbs. where parochial schools have to expand fast, parents are now expected...
...forms of promise. Applicants already do their best to fit into what they consider the required mold, curtailing spontaneous intellectual griwth and activity. But if the Committee is now showing a Yankee sort of wisdom in keeping most of its opinions to itself, in the past it was more outspoken...
...idea that some Christian Scripture is mythological rather than historical, though held by many Protestant theologians, has kicked up a flurry of controversy around San Francisco's outspoken Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike (TIME, Feb. 24). The issue has its counterpart in Roman Catholicism. Cautious by comparison with Bishop Pike-who suggests that even the ancient doctrine of the virgin birth is a mythological way of presenting the paradox of Christ's simultaneous humanity and divinity-Catholic proponents of the idea avoid the word myth. But the new view of the Gospels is highly unsettling to Catholic conservatives...
...Newsweek's new proprietor, Graham plans to divide his time more or less equally between Washington and New York. Newsweek's neuter approach to the news is bound to yield to Phil Graham's outspoken Democratic liberalism. And Phil Graham himself seemed like a kid with a new toy. "It may be fun and it may be agony," said he of his new venture. "But I'm glad...