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...Square. There was also romance: two marching couples got married. When they finally reached Moscow, they were done out of a promised rally in Red Square, but Moscow University permitted the marchers publicly to condemn Russian (as well as U.S.) resumption of nuclear testing; Russian students were permitted to rebut with the Soviet view on the matter. It was a grand diversion, and when University Prorector Grigory Vov-chenko tried to end it after two hours, the Russian students howled him down...
Goldwater, you see, is a rather tall order for almost any voter to accept. To rebut rather sketchily, there is another side to all these Constitutional questions: Senator Goldwater apparently places little stock in the "necessary and proper" and "general welfare" clauses. The wisdom of the ages did not stop accumulating in 1789, and if a nation is to live fruitfully in a changing world, its Constitution must be a reasonably flexible document, laying down a framework for dealing with problems beyond the foresight of the drafters. Why does the Constitution not mention agriculture or education? Because the twentieth century...
...would expect such a remark.") Herter went on to blast the Soviet attack on the U.N. as "an all-out attack, a real declaration of war against the structure, personnel and location of the United Nations," and later U.N. Ambassador James Wadsworth took the floor in the Assembly to rebut Khrushchev in the same vein...
...years ago by Bernard Goldfine (TIME, July 21), on which he had neither repaid principal nor been charged interest. Democrats cagily refused to exploit the Goldfine connection publicly, but talked it up privately, managed thereby to set up an issue that Fred Payne could never effectively rebut. Maine politicos estimate that the malodorous Goldfine affair prompted 20,000 Republican steadies to stay home from the polls, provided the margin that let the Democrats win the governorship...
Javits flatly denied the charges of Communist associations and denounced the campaign against him as "vicious." He asked for and got permission to appear before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to rebut the rumors. He will get plenty of support. All last week prominent New York Republicans were flocking to his defense. Said Oswald D. Heck, speaker of the state assembly and close political associate of Tom Dewey: "The statements circulated about [Javits] are ridiculous. I consider him to be one of the best public servants [and] the strongest candidate for the U.S. Senate...