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...Seldom have man and mission been better mated. Humphrey may not, as the President once boasted, be the world's "greatest coordinator of mind and tongue." He is nonetheless a man of artesian eloquence and visceral conviction, of bright spirit-which his first name literally means. For the President's purposes, moreover, Humphrey's fame as a liberal crusader has assured him a respectful hearing from foreign governments and segments of American society that had discredited the Administration's motives in Viet Nam. As for Humphrey, he has risen to the challenge with...
...Lyndon Johnson seldom fails to point out, polls have long shown that critics of his Viet Nam policy are in a minority. A group of Stanford University social scientists who conducted their own survey of Americans' "deeper attitudes" on the issue reported last week that according to their nationwide sampling, 61% of the population does indeed approve the Administration's handling of the war. Oddly enough, the Stanford poll also showed that 88% would favor negotiations with the Viet Cong, though the Administration has rejected any such concession. In fact, only 29% of those interviewed could correctly define...
Administration critics charge that the Government's Asian policy casts the U.S. in the role of policeman to the world. This objection was seldom voiced during the height of the cold war, since these critics tend to believe that Europe is a legitimate sphere of influence for America. Last week, as he signed a bill authorizing U.S. participation in the $1 billion Asian Development Bank, the President rebutted the Europe-first approach as an "argument of isolationism." Said Johnson: "Asia must no longer sit at the second table of the 20th century's concern...
...enrollment of 375 is an ecumenical admixture of Protestants (including 55 Methodists, 54 Lutherans, 40 Baptists, 31 Presbyterians, 25 Episcopalians) seasoned with 17 Roman Catholics, four Jews and a solitary Buddhist. Characteristically, they put their theological studies ahead of formal religion; Professor Joseph Sittler mournfully notes that there are seldom more than 20 to 30 students at midweek services in Bond Chapel...
...once held a prisoner's hand over a candle flame "till the sin ews burst, and the water did spurt into the dean's face." Accused heretics not infrequently died of mistreatment before they could be executed, and quite often went insane. But according to Foxe they seldom recanted...