Word: portentousness
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...receive the Archbishop standing, instead of with the customary seated extension of his ring to be kissed. Except for an interpreter, the two bishops will be alone. What they talk about may be trivialities, Dr. Fisher admitted last week, but, he added, "Talking trivialities is in itself a portent of great significance. The pleasantries may be pleasantries about profundities...
Certainly the response of 102 people questioned by the survey team bear out Herklots' hesitation. Here are the results: Kennedy (or leaning to Kennedy)--44. Nixon (or leaning to Nixon)--45. Undecided--13. As a portent of things to come, one simply cannot detect any definitive trend on the basis of these figures. It can be assumed, if Brooklyn's reputation as a barometer proves valid again this year, that the election will be extremely close, but this is hardly shedding any new light on the situation. As an indication of the people's mood, however, answers to the lengthy...
Democrats, however, point to this drop in Republican estimates as a portent of things to come. Robert Caldwell, managing editor of the Bayonne Times in Hudson, thinks that his county will give Kennedy a 100,000 edge, enough to insure victory in the state. He reported that the dissident factions who have been picking at the remains of the old Hague Democratic machine in Jersey City have united behind the party and are successfully getting out the vote. Caldwell cites Hudson's 78 per cent Catholic population as an important factor in the county's support of Kennedy...
Prematurely written off as a lifeless affair, the K. of C. track meet last Saturday at the Boston Garden surprised veteran observers with a rash of splendid performances. Many of the very best efforts were contributed by the Yale track team-an ominous portent if there ever...
Well in advance of next spring's summit palaver, who should flit into Paris from Moscow but Izvestia's Editor in Chief Aleksei Adzhubei and his buxom wife Rada, daughter of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. If their general air of good will was any portent, the summit itself should be festooned with olive branches. To an Air France greeter, Newsman Adzhubei joked (in Russian): "You ought to have two classes on your planes - one for the thin ones, one for the fat." Then he grabbed a microphone, glowed: "I wish everyone a good year and, since...