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UNTIL the polls close Nov. 6, 1956, Democratic strategy will be directed toward separating in the public mind President Eisenhower, the popular military leader, from President Eisenhower, the civil and political leader. The former they will let alone. They hope, through remorseless analysis as issues and occasions arise, to show that the limitations of the latter disqualify him for a second term. Their strategy implies that they expect him to run again. Sincere Democrats believe that the President is the major and almost indeed the only political asset of the Republican Party...
Mendès, taking the rostrum, said that as a result of the "remorseless campaign" of lies and calumnies conducted by "certain leading persons in France," he had suffered ''deep humiliation" when negotiating with allied statesmen in London. "I will not submit to this usury," he said. "The question which faces you tonight is . . . does the government have your confidence as patriots and Deputies?" The vote: 287 to 240 in favor of Mendès, his smallest majority...
...mile jog trot." Mary was excused from some of the more rigorous exercises when she was pregnant, so she could sometimes lie abed watching her husband. Physically, he was a striking specimen. His perfectly muscled body was only 5 ft. 6 in. high, his visage was stern, beaked and remorseless, his eyes of a peculiar hazel which became somberly multicolored in moments of passion. His teeth were none too good-per haps because he believed that the cure for toothache was to chew hard on a piece of mahogany ("massage," he called it). He always slept soundly; even when many...
...situation was tailor-made for the Reds: all over the country, the workers, galled by remorseless price rises, were in a rebellious mood. On Rio's waterfront, dockers by the droves left the government-controlled union, went over to a militant new independent outfit; they refused to do any overtime work until the government started paying bonuses promised last December. Merchant marine officers threatened a strike that would tie up the government's two shipping lines. Even doctors at government institutions in Rio staged a one-day strike. Things were at their worst in São Paulo...
...Impact of Communism on Theology: "This is our terribly difficult task. We cannot hide from this remorseless analysis of Christianity; we must confess how much has been hollow and unreal or worse. And we search passionately for that center and foundation of our faith which is invulnerable to attack...