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Insurmountable Barriers. The same ancient obstacle is a roadblock to unity with those other "separated communities"-the Protestants. Pope John is said to be sounding out Protestant leaders on the possibilities of having Protestant representatives at the ecumenical council as "observers." This in itself would be a significant step in Protestant-Catholic relations; Protestants refused to attend the last ecumenical council of 1869-70. Last week Protestant reactions to the Pope's planned council were calculatedly reserved...
Over in the House, Speaker Sam Rayburn pushed his crew to be ready to complete action on Lyndon Johnson's time schedule. There had been some worry that House Veterans' Committee Chairman Olin E. ("Tiger") Teague would throw a roadblock in the way, as he has in the past, by refusing to permit an increase in the G.I. mortgage rate, from 4¼% to 5¼%, which was incorporated in both Senate and House bills. But Rayburn took Teague aside, and he permitted the higher interest rate to go through...
High Proof. In San Bruno, Calif., police patrols stopped hundreds of cars to check drivers for intoxication, landed nary a drinker, found down the road a homemade sign reading: "Roadblock ahead. Lushes turn right...
...Republican voters, the Gallup poll found Vice President Richard Nixon the far-and-away leader, with 64% against only 9% for the runner-up, California's Senator William Knowland. Checking again last week, in the wake of the 1958 elections, the pollsters found a far more imposing Nixon roadblock in New York's Governor-elect Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. The new listing...
...second roadblock was thrown up during the maneuvering over Arkansas Democrat J. William Fulbright's Community Facilities Bill to provide long-term (50 years) public-works loans to small cities with low credit ratings. Fortnight ago, Republicans on Fulbright's Banking and Currency Committee (joined by Democrats Paul Douglas of Illinois, Allen Frear Jr. of Delaware and Willis Robertson of Virginia) trimmed the bill's total from $2 billion to $1 billion, upped the proposed interest rate from...