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Face to Face. The resolution made no direct reference to a summit meeting with Russia, but the implication was clear in the words: There can be "no substitute for personal encounter in the pursuit of human understanding . . . When men who profess the Christian religion make no adequate provision for a face-to-face encounter with their enemies, they betray the religion which they profess...
...What are we to do about it?" asked the New York Times, as it surveyed the world around it. "We and the things we stand for will survive when we live up to the ideals we profess . . . The U.S. reaction must be positive, helpful and conservative...
James Costigan, son of a chandelier maker, is both poet and theologian (though he does not profess to be either), as well as a bundle of paradoxes. Though he cultivates a faint brogue derived from his County Kerry ancestry, he never saw Ireland until 1954. He can talk religion with the most devout, but he has not practiced Roman Catholicism since his high school days ended his formal education. Though Hollywood seems a most unlikely place to have produced the author of Little Moon, he was raised there, played some bit parts as a child, shook off the "meaningless" glamour...
...another chance. His voice blasted at Perón on dark streets to little knots of approving Radicals. When the dictator eased up just before his fall in 1955. he chose Frondizi to speak for the opposition. Said Frondizi: the Radicals stand for the right "to think, to profess religion, to meet, to publish ideas...
...begun. The result is that Russia is not legally bound to spend a single ruble on Syrian development. And, in fact, the agreement has not yet netted Syria a single ruble. Economists consider many of the projects overambitious for the Syrian economy. But unlike the U.S., the Russians profess themselves willing to undertake whatever projects the Syrians want, regardless of their fundamental economic utility. Thus the Russians have achieved their real objective, which is not to make the Syrians prosperous but to keep them happy...