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...Schism Healing...
...From Schism to Schism. Near conference's end, Barry Goldwater showed up looking tanned and fit, surrounded by autograph seekers and well-wishers. In his speech, Goldwater declared: "Enough time has gone by to know that it was image that decided the election. Your candidate, and that was me in case you forgot it, was saddled with two images: that I would risk war too easily and that I would destroy the social security system. They were in fact the biggest political lies ever told in this country." He urged that the "stupidity" of the party...
...churches' participation in the civil rights revolution has united a wide variety of Christians committed to equal justice for the Negro; it has also raised the threat of denominational schism between the socially concerned and those who feel that their church should stay out of politics. Finally, warned Blake, union is threatened by lethargy and by "an actual hardening of opposition to church union proposals"-most notably, although Blake did not say it, among Methodists...
...fourth there shall not be." The first, of course, was the Rome of Augustus: the second was Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire after the great schism split the Roman world...
Undrummed China. In the Sino-Soviet schism, Togliatti strongly supported Khrushchev, and he had to deal with some pro-Peking splinters in his own party. But he believed it would be a tactical mistake to try to drum China out of the Communist bloc. That was perhaps what he hoped to talk about to Nikita Khrushchev when he started on a Black Sea vacation early this month. Near Yalta, two weeks ago, he suffered a stroke while visiting a Communist youth camp. Soviet doctors said he was too ill to be moved from the camp infirmary, and there last week...