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Most Democrats pin their hopes for a presidential victory in November on a premise and a prayer. The premise: labor, hard core of party strength for two decades, will hold firm. The prayer: enough farmers, upset over falling income, will switch to the Democratic candidate to ensure him the White House...
Wicked winds whipped in off the Firth of Clyde for that last round on Troon Old Course. Tee shots curved relentlessly out of line. But from chipping distance to the pin, Beharrell was equal to anything the weather or the links demanded. He one-putted most greens. He never showed a blink of emotion. After he had lost four holes in a row, he came back later to sink a two-foot putt and win. Then he relaxed for an instant. He grabbed his cap and waved his putter aloft in his other hand. "Aye!" he shouted with relief...
Fall of a Hero. In such an age, is there nothing on which American intellectuals can pin their collective faith? Certainly not on the easy "liberalism" of the past, for this has proved completely inadequate. The U.S., says Leslie Fiedler, has passed through "an age of innocence," when the intellectual, in his role as critic, performed only half his function. "It was easy," says Fiedler, "for intellectuals to criticize the black reactionaries and the Ya hoos, but the intellectual's duty was to do more than that-to criticize the en lightened people, to criticize his own side...
...Senator-apparent Herman E. Talmadge, set up a pitch stand in an Atlanta department store, handed out succulent slices of Talmadge Ham to sample-minded passersby. A country girl who learned how to cure hams back on the farm, able Businesswoman Betty Talmadge started her enterprise to make pin money in 1952, last year reportedly peddled 62,000 hams, pinned down a whole-hog gross...
...coming two or three generations are decisive," he says, "because there is real danger ahead. On the one hand is anarchy. Humanity can't survive looking at television screens. On the other there is technocracy, in which man becomes a tiny pin in a gigantic mechanism. How can man be preserved? The answer seems so fragile, so hypothetical, that people understandably mock it. It is simply that we need an act of faith in man-faith in his profound worth and in the divine spark he contains." For faith is the bridge to the future. "This is Rome...