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...Chesney Martin, who had previously urged tax increases to battle inflation, told a meeting of the American Bankers Association that he could well under stand why the President had held off on a tax hike until "he knows where we are going in Viet Nam." In a fascinating sideshow to the ABA sessions in Spain, Martin's Federal Reserve colleague, Board Member J. Dewey Daane, appeared in a Toledo ring and made four respectable passes with a scarlet and yellow cape at a "bull." Actually, the beast was a heifer, but the bankers wildly cheered the performance-not least...
...away. True, the sharp, ferret-eyed kid who had left his native Pickens, S.C., at 14 to become a Senate page had been charged with gross impropriety for using his post as a Senate aide to become Washington's No. 1 influence peddler. But he had survived two sideshow investigations by the Democrat-packed Rules Committee, which was not anxious to strike down the man who had been Lyndon Johnson's protégé and top aide. And he still showed himself through Washington like an elegant boulevardier, his jowls freshly barbered, his darting eyes hidden behind...
...average Latin American today is most concerned about better living standards, educational opportunity and full employment. At best, religion is but a sideshow to life. For Catholic and Protestant missionaries to concentrate on evangelization [July 23] is thus to miss the point. In the long run, Christianity in Latin America will be relevant only to the degree that it becomes identified with the contemporary social revolution. The Catholic Church has begun to realize this. By lending technical and professional assistance to church-sponsored programs of social reform, Papal Volunteers are witnessing to the fact that Christ came not to save...
Rice & Rifles. The main reason is U.S. escalation of the war in neighboring Viet Nam. U.S. jets, striking out of Thailand, Danang and the Gulf of Tonkin at supply routes from the north, have kept the Pathet Lao pinned down. Since North Viet Nam considers Laos a sideshow anyhow, the Laotian Communists recently have had short shrift in supplies from Hanoi...
...Andy Warhol's cover illustration portrays the antics of monkeys in a sideshow. One might infer that today's teenagers make a joke of the responsibility inherent in their premature sophistication...