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...there is an attempt to turn Kennedy's Catholicism against him. Kennedy sought foreign policy advice from Adlai Stevenson and Chester Bowles, the article says; "he did not fear that the right-wing objections to their policies would rub off on him, benefiting from his church's militant line in dealing with the Communists...
Nevertheless, unconcerned voters go to the polls too, and it is possible that their vote could be heavily influenced by the President. The degree to which the Eisenhower many will rub off on Nixon, and the eventual effort of the religious issue are the two great in ponderables of this campaign. Together, they could well stem the Kennedy tide that new paper men around the country have been porting. On the other hand, the religious issue cuts both ways, and if anti-Catholic as managers to repel enough Catholics as anti-bigots, that plus the general majority superior organizational strength...
President Eisenhower has never been one to be content with the clarity of immediacy. When he wants to rub a peephole in the steamy window looking out on the nation's future, he concedes that he himself is no expert on the future, and appoints a committee to do the rubbing...
...doors-and-tennis-rackets comedy that has long been the West End's mirror of English life, Joan Littlewood likes to fill her theater with the smell of cold porridge and soft coal. her stage with people of small means and great imagination. She likes her characters to rub hips with spivs, tarts, pansies and drunks, in whose vernacular a whore is a brass and a pimp is a ponce (one song in Fings Ain't What They Used to Be is called The Student Ponce). But while a Tennessee Williams plumbs similar material to draw interior diagrams...
...Kennedy can pile up a margin of more than 900,000 downstate, Nixon will have to win over 60 per cent of the rest of the state. And there is the rub...