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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orthodox churches not only sat in attendance at the debates, but were also consulted by the prelates responsible for shaping conciliar decrees. In Rome also were more than 400 periti, or theological experts, and 400 newsmen who made the frank, free debates, quarrels and achievements of Vatican II front-page news in every nation outside the Iron Curtain...
...Thousand Days he has done just that. From page 1 of the book, when he sets the stage for Kennedy's Inauguration by describing the "eerie beauty" of blizzard-bound Washington, to page 1031, when he rings down the curtain on a snow-covered grave in Arlington, he follows Thomas Babington Macaulay's dictum that "a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated...
...frequent apologies in print. Recently the Daily News ran a correction: "In yesterday's issue, due to a printing error in the item on the Philippines, 'U.S. to Pay $6 Million Cost' was printed 'U.S. to Pay $6 Million Loot'; and on the same page in the item on Billy Graham, 'Asks Audience to Give L.B.J. Standing Ovation' was printed 'Asks Audience to Give L.B.J. Standing Nation.' We sincerely regret these misspellings and ask our readers to accept our sincere apologies...
...Uncommitted; Keniston repeats chapters as well as sentences. He has evidently taken the hoary Gen. Ed. A dictum to heart: say what you plan to say; say it; say what you've said. This technique puffs up what ought to be a modest essay into a 500 page book, plus a separate monograph, The Alienated Student, as yet unpublished...
...weren't for the snarl, Sims and the Deacons would not be famous today. It's the gangland reputation, the toothless sneer, that have won the man and his organization front-page coverage in newspapers across the country. As long as Sims maintains the mystique, the American press will do his proselytizing and fund-raising for him. Sims estimates that there are now 50 to 60 Deacon chapters in existence, and it's a cinch that most of these were inspired by newspaper accounts alone. Sims told me, "I don't really like publicity. I'd never talk...