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...Associated Press' cigar-chewing Forrest Edwards, rose during one press briefing to complain that 17 different government spokesmen had given him 17 separate reports. "What do you expect?" Minister of Information Sisouk Na Champassak replied accurately. "If you speak to 17 different people, of course you'll get 17 different stories...
...however, there exists a clear pervasive spirit of questioning, skepticism, tolerance--in sum, an apotheosis of relativism and tolerance. At Harvard the values of relativism are quickly transformed from means to ends, from mere method to metaphysics. They become the "practical postulates" of a University which wants to embrace spokesmen for opposing views in a harmonious institution. Even the religious person, moreover the believer in salvation through a particular church, must divorce his role of believer from his role of teacher. If he would teach he cannot by direct methods fish for souls...
...Said the Christian Century: "Roman Catholic spokesmen are generally critical of President Eisenhower for inviting Premier Khrushchev to this country. As usual, a cardinal or an archbishop spoke first and then others fell into line, including the obedient Catholic press . . . However, the wisest Catholic leaders must know that criticism can be overdone...
Gripping the table to control his Irish temper, Jim Hagerty replied with unexpected docility that he "would expect" the forthcoming television chat of Eisenhower and Macmillan to include a report on the issues. When the program produced mostly generalizations,, newsmen looking for amplification found that Hagerty and the British spokesmen were "unavailable...
...drawn instead to a spot only a short distance away, where an array of nude marble statues seem to look ironically down at the inconspicuous marker. Dominicans have made several attempts-the last only five years ago-to have their hero canonized. But sainthood is unlikely, say Vatican spokesmen, because the man Savonarola defied was a Pope, even though he was a Borgia. To the historian, perhaps the most fascinating question is what would have happened if the Roman Catholic Church had been reformed at the time the angry friar demanded it. When Savonarola died, Martin Luther was 14 years...