Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ideological Equations. Practically every one of those names was mentioned in what became the second biggest guessing game at the convention. The big question, of course, was: Could Nixon be stopped? The next biggest: If not, who would be his running mate...
...traveling in Europe, and persuaded him to join in an unprecedented joint public statement. After consulting Crossley, they issued a complicated collective verdict. If their three polls were "plotted out sequentially, as though they were conducted by a single organization, using the same sampling techniques and the same question-asking techniques," they concluded, then 1) a Nixon-Humphrey race would be extremely close, "with Wallace perhaps holding the balance"; 2) "Rockefeller has now moved to an open lead over his possible Democratic opponents, Humphrey and McCarthy"; and 3) "the McCarthy vote has shown and continues to show the greatest amount...
...steps that need be taken to lower the level of violence in Viet Nam, however difficult each may prove to be in practice. Speaking not as a candidate for President, Hubert Humphrey has called for an immediate cease-fire in Viet Nam. A good many Viet Nam experts question whether a cease-fire ought to be the first step in reducing hostilities since, like the oft-violated Jet truces, it would provide no assurance against local violence or massive Communist resupply and buildup in contested areas. Some allied military men nonetheless favor the idea, arguing that it would provide...
...glass, the New Statesman imagines what world reaction would have been if the U.S. had been in Russia's role vis-a-vis Czechoslovakia. The usually anti-American magazine suggested, of course, that the U.S. was not unnecessarily beyond this sort of behavior, particularly if the country in question were as near to the U.S. as Czechoslovakia is to Russia. Still, the New Statesman came down hard on the Russians: "One has only to consider this scenario to see how in-defensible-in terms of any principles ever upheld by men of integrity, including that of 'national sovereignty...
Thus, instead of solving a troubling question of personal morality for Catholics, Paul has, in fact, brought into the open a much more profound question: Where and what is authority in the church? Ironically, the Pope, who has worried so much about the spread of dissension within Catholicism, has really created the conditions for further revolt...