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...danger about which all voters might justly be concerned would be the possible election of a Catholic unsophisticated in his faith. The church holds no binding political power over its members, nor does it enjoy impeccability in this sphere. Certainly an educated Catholic is aware of the narrow scope of the Pope's infallibility and of how seldom he speaks ex cathedra. A great concern of the truly enlightened electorate ought to be the possibility of a candidate lacking in religious convictions...
...world has a new scout in the space between the planets. Its paddle-shaped solar batteries wheeling in the glaring sunlight of airless space, Pioneer V, a 94.8-lb. sphere only 26 in. in diameter, was the first interplanetary traveler with a far-ranging and long-lasting voice. If all goes well, scientists will be hearing from Pioneer V steadily for the next five months, then sporadically for years to come, as it swings back within range...
...protest. President Eisenhower should reconsider his decision to attend the mid-May summit meeting in Paris with Russia's Khrushchev. In Japan, Tokyo's Sankei Jiji Shimbun key-noted: "Russia's shooting rockets into Britain's and America's sphere makes one dubious about notions that the cold war is melting." In Hong Kong, the Communist Ta Kung Pao blazoned a Red rocket across its front page and rejoiced: "The harder the U.S. tries to catch up, the farther it falls behind...
...Starr bought a small Shanghai newspaper, built it into the Shanghai Eve ning Post & Mercury, one of the most outspoken papers in the Far East. Starr's paper opposed Japan's growing sphere of influence so vehemently that he was forced to leave Shanghai. Then the Japa nese took over the city. But American International found new fields to conquer in Latin America, eventually built a larger business there than it ever had in the Orient...
...personal-publicity experts, Spain's Surrealist Salvador Dali, made his regular winter pilgrimage to Manhattan, managed to make sure that everybody knew of his arrival. Dressed in a gold leather space suit, Dali looked a trifle Martian while posing inside his latest brainchild, an "ovocipede," a transparent plastic sphere that rolls merrily along while its operator sits comfortably (says Dali) encapsulated. For newsmen, Dali climaxed his performance by letting the ovocipede get out of control, wound up sublimely supine...